Lockheed Space Operations Company

STS-55

Space Shuttle

SUCCESS
Success

Monday, April 26, 1993 · 14:50 UTC

Mission

/01

STS-55 (Space Transportation System 55), or D-2 was the 55th overall flight of the US 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.

Mission Type

N/A

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Space Shuttle

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

28.608° N, 80.604° W

49

Pad Launches

72

Location Launches

46

Agency Launches

27

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