Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-83 carrying the Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 Spacelab module. A fuel cell malfunction forced an early return after less than four days, and the experiments were reflown on STS-94 that July.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 27.5 T
- Flight
- 83rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 4 April 1997, 19:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1997-013
- Launches in 1997
- 14th of 89
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