Lockheed Space Operations Company
STS-55
Space Shuttle
SUCCESS
Success
Monday, April 26, 1993 · 14:50 UTC
Mission
/01STS-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
/02Rocket
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
Orbital This Year