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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.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: sts058-s-001

Date: May 1993

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