Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-73, the second US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) Spacelab mission, after a record-tying seven launch attempts, conducting 16 days of combustion, fluid-physics, and materials-science experiments in orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13.9 T
- Flight
- 72nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 1995, 13:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1995-056
- Launches in 1995
- 61st of 80
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