NASA's STS-90 Neurolab mission flew Space Shuttle Columbia on a 16-day flight dedicated to studying the effects of microgravity on the nervous system, marking the final flight of the ESA Spacelab module after its debut on STS-9 in 1983.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 28.8 T
- Flight
- 90th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 17 April 1998, 18:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1998-022
- Launches in 1998
- 23rd of 82
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