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![]() Spacelab Module LM2 in Columbia's payload bay, serving as the Neurolab | |
Names | Space Transportation System-90 |
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Mission type | Bioscience research |
Operator | NASA |
COSPAR ID | 1998-022A |
SATCAT no. | 25297 |
Mission duration | 15 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes, 58 seconds |
Distance travelled | 10,000,000 kilometres (6,200,000 mi) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Columbia |
Landing mass | 105,462 kilograms (232,504 lb) |
Payload mass | 10,788 kilograms (23,783 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 17 April 1998 18:19 | UTC
Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39B |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 3 May 1998 16:09 | UTC
Landing site | Kennedy, SLF Runway 33 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 247 kilometres (153 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 274 kilometres (170 mi) |
Inclination | 39.0 degrees |
Period | 89.7 min |
![]() ![]() Left to right – Front row: Altman, Searfoss; Back row: Pawelczyk, Linnehan, Hire, Williams, Buckey |
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,[1] which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia.