Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-55

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.

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Space Shuttle Columbia


Serial OV-102

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 1993-05-06T14:30:00+0000


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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


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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.

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