STS-55
Sign in to saveSTS-55, or Deutschland 2 (D-2), was the 55th overall flight of the NASA Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple Earth observations.
Key facts
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- STS-55
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- STS-55 Spacelab.jpg
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- Spacelab Module LM1 in Columbias payload bay, serving as the Spacelab D-2 laboratory
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- Space Transportation System-55Spacelab D-2
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- Microgravity research
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- NASA and DLR
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 160
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (10:50amEDT)
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- Kennedy, LC-39A
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- Rockwell International
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- UTC (7:29:59amPDT)
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- Edwards, Runway22
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- Geocentric orbit
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- Low Earth orbit
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- 28.45°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.70 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
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- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Launch
- Mission highlights
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STS-55, or Deutschland 2 (D-2), was the 55th overall flight of the NASA Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple Earth observations.
== Crew ==