Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
STS-50
The U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1 was a spacelab mission, with experiments in material science, fluid physics and biotechnology. It was the first flight of a Space Shuttle with the Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO) hardware, allowing longer flight durations.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 12,101.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
1992
35th orbital launch attempt
Space Shuttle
48th mission
4th mission of 1992
47th successful mission
23rd consecutive successful mission