NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

STS-58

Launch Time
Mon Oct 18, 1993 14:53 UTC

Rocket

Space Shuttle Columbia
NASA
Status: Retired
Price: $450.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 30,250 kN
Payload to LEO: 27,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,810 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 56.1 m

Vehicles

Edwards Runway 22

OV-102

Flight #15
175 day turnaround

Mission Details

STS-58

STS-58 was a 1993 shuttle mission dedicated to life sciences research. Columbia’s crew performed a series of experiments to gain knowledge on how the human body adapts to the weightless environment of space. Experiments focused on cardiovascular, regulatory, neurovestibular and musculoskeletal systems of the body. The experiments performed on Columbia’s crew and on laboratory animals (48 rats held in 24 cages), along with data collected on the SLS-1 mission in June 1991, will provide the most detailed and interrelated physiological measurements acquired in the space environment since the Skylab program in 1973 and 1974.

Total Mass: 11,803.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

1993

70th orbital launch attempt

Space Shuttle

58th mission
6th mission of 1993
57th successful mission
33rd consecutive successful mission