STS-65
STS-65 was a Space Shuttle program mission of Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 8 July 1994. The flight carried a crew of 7 and was commanded by Robert D. Cabana who would go on later to lead the Kennedy Space Center. STS-65 was an international science mission that carried the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) on a 15-day mission which featured the first animals (Japanese rice fish) to conceive and bear offspring in space. Columbia returned to the Kennedy Space Center on 23 July 1994.
Key facts
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- STS-65
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- Space Transportation System-65
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- STS-65 spacelab.jpg
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- Spacelab Module LM1 in Columbia payload bay, serving as the International Microgravity Laboratory
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- NASA
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- Microgravity research
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- 235
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- 14 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes
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- Kennedy, LC-39A
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Article
21 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Backup crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Mission overview
- Life Sciences Research Objectives
- Life Sciences Payload
- Organisms
- Hardware
- Operations
- Preflight
- Inflight
- Postflight
- Results
- Newt Study
- Jellyfish Study
- Daylily Cell Study
- Newts
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-65 was a Space Shuttle program mission of Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 8 July 1994. The flight carried a crew of 7 and was commanded by Robert D. Cabana who would go on later to lead the Kennedy Space Center. STS-65 was an international science mission that carried the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) on a 15-day mission which featured the first animals (Japanese rice fish) to conceive and bear offspring in space. Columbia returned to the Kennedy Space Center on 23 July 1994.
==Crew==