STS-40

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

13:24:51

Wednesday June 5, 1991

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

STS-40

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It was the fifth dedicated Spacelab mission, Spacelab Life Sciences-1, and first dedicated solely to life sciences, using the habitable module. Mission featured most detailed and interrelated physiological measurements in space since 1973–1974 Skylab missions. Subjects were humans, 30 rodents and thousands of tiny jellyfish. Primary SLS-1 experiments studied six body systems; of 18 investigations, ten involved humans, seven involved rodents, and one used jellyfish.

Low Earth Orbit

12,374 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Space Shuttle Columbia

Active 1981 to 2003

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo

Agency

NASA

Price

$450.00 million

Rocket

Height: 56.1m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 27,500 kg

GTO: 3,810 kg

Liftoff Thrust

30,250 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

LC-39B

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

28 days 11 hours

Stats

Space Shuttle


41st

Mission

3rd

Mission of 1991

1991


41st

Orbital launch attempt