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Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102
Launched 1993-04-26 14:50 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Worldwide
27th
orbital launch attempt in 1993
Lockheed Space Operations Company
3rd
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
145 d 1 h
since the pad's previous launch
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.
Launches
65
Successful
64
98%
Upcoming
0
scheduled
Height
56.1m
Diameter
8m
To low Earth orbit
27,500kg
Liftoff thrust
28,200kN
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