Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-65 carrying the International Microgravity Laboratory-2 (IML-2) for a 15-day science mission with over 80 experiments; payload specialist Chiaki Mukai became the first Japanese woman in space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13.1 T
- Flight
- 63rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 8 July 1994, 16:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1994-039
- Launches in 1994
- 42nd of 93
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