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Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102: STS-62

STS-62 was a Space Shuttle program mission flown aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. 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.

Friday, 4 March 1994
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102: STS-62

Mission Data

Launch VehicleSpace Shuttle
Vehicle Record133 of 135 launches (98.5%)
Launch Provider🇺🇸 Lockheed Space Operations Company
Provider TypeCommercial
Agency Record64 successes / 1 failures (98%)
Success Streak49 consecutive
ProgramSpace Shuttle · Human Spaceflight
Target OrbitLow Earth Orbit
Launch PadLaunch Complex 39B
Location🇺🇸 Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA USA
Orbital Launches This Year#16
Agency Launches This Year#2
Launches From This Pad59
Launches From This Site283
Status Note

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

About Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

Launch Site

Launch Complex 39B · 28.6271°N 80.6210°W

Launch data from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.