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STS-40

Space Shuttle

1991Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center

Mission

STS-40 was the eleventh launch of Columbia and carried the Spacelab module for Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1), the fifth Spacelab mission and the first dedicated to biology. It was also the first mission to carry three women crew members.

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Mission Facts

Provider
LSOC
Rocket
Space Shuttle
Orbit
LEO
Pad
Launch Complex 39B
NET precision
Year
Data source
LL2
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