STS-58
Launch: October 18, 1993
Landing: November 1, 1993 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.
Astronauts: John E. Blaha, Richard A. Searfoss, M. Rhea Seddon, William S. McArthur, Jr., David A. Wolf, Shannon W. Lucid and Martin Fettman
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Six rodents were killed and dissected during mission, yielding first tissue samples collected in space and not altered by re-exposure to Earth's gravity. With completion of her fourth space flight, Lucid accumulated most flight time for a female astronaut on the shuttle, 838 hours.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts058-s-001
Date: May 1993
STS-58
Launch: October 18, 1993
Landing: November 1, 1993 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.
Astronauts: John E. Blaha, Richard A. Searfoss, M. Rhea Seddon, William S. McArthur, Jr., David A. Wolf, Shannon W. Lucid and Martin Fettman
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Six rodents were killed and dissected during mission, yielding first tissue samples collected in space and not altered by re-exposure to Earth's gravity. With completion of her fourth space flight, Lucid accumulated most flight time for a female astronaut on the shuttle, 838 hours.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts058-s-001
Date: May 1993