STS-90
Sign in to saveSTS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle mission flown by the Space Shuttle Columbia. The 16-day mission marked the last flight of the European Space Agency's Spacelab laboratory module, which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-90
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-90
- Spaceflight.image
- Sunrise over Spacelab.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Spacelab Module LM2 in Columbia's payload bay, serving as the Neurolab
- Spaceflight.insignia
- Sts-90-patch.svg
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Bioscience research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 15 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes, 58 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
- 7
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- STS-90 crew.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Left to right – Front row: Altman, Searfoss; Back row: Pawelczyk, Linnehan, Hire, Williams, Buckey
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-91
- Follows
- STS-89
- Duration
- 1374658
- Parent body
- Earth
- Mass
- 10788
- Orbital period
- 89.7
- Image
- Sunrise over Spacelab.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- STS-90
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1998-04-17
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- James A. Pawelczyk
- vessel
- Columbia
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- orbits completed
- 256
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1998-05-03
- Commons gallery
- STS-90
- orbital inclination
- 39.0
- periapsis
- 247
- apoapsis
- 274
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Backup crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle mission flown by the Space Shuttle Columbia. The 16-day mission marked the last flight of the European Space Agency's Spacelab laboratory module, which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia.
==Crew==
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