Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | 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.

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

• Space Shuttle

  Human Spaceflight
  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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• Steven R. Nagel
  Commander
• Terence Henricks
  Pilot
• Ulrich Walter
  Payload Specialist
• Bernard Harris
  Mission Specialist
• Hans Schlegel
  Payload Specialist
• Charles J. Precourt
  Mission Specialist
• Jerry L. Ross
  Mission Specialist

• Space Shuttle Columbia

  Spaceplane
  Low Earth Orbit

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