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Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-73

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-73

Status: Success  |  Launched: Oct 20, 1995 13:53 UTC

Launch Provider & Rocket

Mission

STS-73 was a Space Shuttle program mission, during October–November 1995, on board the space shuttle Columbia. The mission was the second mission for the United States Microgravity Laboratory. The crew, who spent 16 days in space, were broken up into 2 teams, the red team and the blue team. The mission also included several Detailed Test Objectives or DTO's.

  • Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

  • Pad: Launch Complex 39B
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Program

  • Space Shuttle — The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. (Wikipedia)

Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-08-22T21:02:10.804714+00:00.