Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-55
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-55
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.
Space Shuttle Columbia
Serial OV-102
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Destroyed
Landing Time 1993-05-06T14:30:00+0000
Crew
Steven R. Nagel
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1946-10-27
Deceased 2014-08-21
Status Deceased
Type Government
Terence Henricks
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1952-07-05
Status Retired
Type Government
Bernard Harris
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1956-06-26
Status Retired
Type Government
Charles J. Precourt
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1955-06-29
Status Retired
Type Government
Hans Schlegel
Payload Specialist
Nationality German
Date Of Birth 1951-08-03
Status Retired
Type Government
Jerry L. Ross
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1948-01-20
Status Retired
Type Government
Ulrich Walter
Payload Specialist
Nationality German
Date Of Birth 1954-02-09
Status Retired
Type Government
Space Shuttle
Height 56.10 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 28200 kN
Diameter 8.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 27500 kg
Liftoff Mass 2030 Tonnes
Launch Success 133
Consecutive Success 22
Maiden Flight 1981-04-12
Launch Failures 2
Programs
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
