STS-40

Launch: June 5, 1991

Landing: June 14, 1991 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.

Astronauts: Bryan D. O'Connor, Sidney M. Gutierrez, James P. Bagian, Tamara E. Jernigan, M. Rhea Seddon, F. Drew Gaffney and Millie Hughes-Fulford

Space Shuttle: Columbia

 

The fifth dedicated Spacelab mission, Spacelab Life Sciences-1, and first mission dedicated solely to life sciences, using the habitable module. Subjects were humans, 30 rodents and thousands of tiny jellyfish.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: s40-s-001

Date: May 1990

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