STS-62
Sign in to saveSTS-62 was a Space Shuttle program mission flown aboard . The primary payloads were the USMP-02 microgravity experiments package and the OAST-2 engineering and technology payload, both in the orbiter's cargo bay. The two-week mission also featured a number of biomedical experiments focusing on the effects of long duration spaceflight. The landing was chronicled by the 1994 Discovery Channel special about the Space Shuttle program and served as the show's opening. A C.F. Martin backpacker guitar was also flown aboard Columbia during the mission.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 224
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 13 days, 23 hours, 16 minutes, 41 seconds
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 5
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- Sts-62_crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right - Standing: Gemar, Ivins, Thuot; Seated: Allen, Casper
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.4 minutes
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 39.00 degrees
- Spaceflight.programme
- Space Shuttle program
- Spaceflight.previous_mission
- STS-60 (60)
- Spaceflight.next_mission
- STS-59 (62)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 1207001
- Mass
- 8759
- Orbital period
- 90.4
- Image
- Typhoon Owen, STS-62.jpg
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- Commons category
- STS-62
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1994-03-04
- orbits completed
- 224
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1994-04-18
- Commons gallery
- STS-62
- orbital inclination
- 39.0
- periapsis
- 296
- apoapsis
- 309
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
- Day 5
- Day 6
- Day 7–8
- Day 9
- Day 10
- Day 11
- Day 12
- Day 13
- Day 14
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-62 was a Space Shuttle program mission flown aboard . The primary payloads were the USMP-02 microgravity experiments package and the OAST-2 engineering and technology payload, both in the orbiter's cargo bay. The two-week mission also featured a number of biomedical experiments focusing on the effects of long duration spaceflight. The landing was chronicled by the 1994 Discovery Channel special about the Space Shuttle program and served as the show's opening. A C.F. Martin backpacker guitar was also flown aboard Columbia during the mission.
==Crew==