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STS-90
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STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle mission flown by the Space Shuttle Columbia. The 16-day mission marked the last flight of the European Space Agency's Spacelab laboratory module, which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia.

Key facts

Spaceflight.name
STS-90
Spaceflight.names_list
Space Transportation System-90
Spaceflight.image
Sunrise over Spacelab.jpg
Spaceflight.image_caption
Spacelab Module LM2 in Columbia's payload bay, serving as the Neurolab
Spaceflight.insignia
Sts-90-patch.svg
Spaceflight.mission_type
Bioscience research
Spaceflight.operator
NASA
Spaceflight.mission_duration
15 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes, 58 seconds
Spaceflight.launch_site
Kennedy, LC-39B
Spaceflight.launch_date
 UTC
Spaceflight.landing_date
 UTC
Spaceflight.landing_site
Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
Spaceflight.crew_size
7
Spaceflight.crew_photo
STS-90 crew.jpg
Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
Left to right – Front row: Altman, Searfoss; Back row: Pawelczyk, Linnehan, Hire, Williams, Buckey
Spaceflight.apsis
gee
Spaceflight.orbit_reference
Geocentric
Spaceflight.orbit_regime
Low Earth

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Crew
  • Backup crew
  • Crew seat assignments
  • Mission highlights
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle mission flown by the Space Shuttle Columbia. The 16-day mission marked the last flight of the European Space Agency's Spacelab laboratory module, which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia.

==Crew==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-90” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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