Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-55, the German-led Spacelab D-2 mission, carrying an international crew of seven who ran 88 experiments in materials science, life science, technology and Earth observation over nearly ten days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.4 T
- Flight
- 55th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 1993, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1993-027
- Launches in 1993
- 27th of 83
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