Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing on
Edwards
AFB.
Second flight of Spacelab, but the first in a fully operational configuration.
Spacelab capabilities for multi-disciplinary research in microgravity were
successfully demonstrated.
All in all 15 experiments on five basic
discipline areas: materials sciences, life sciences, fluid mechanics,
atmospheric physics and astronomy; two monkeys and 24 rodents were observed for
effects of weightlessness. Two Getaway Special experiments required that they
be deployed from their canisters, a "first" in this program. These were NUSAT
(Northern Utah Satellite) and
GLOMR
(Global Low Orbiting Message Relay Satellite). NUSAT deployed successfully, but
GLOMR
did not deploy and was returned to Earth.
Payload Specialists
Wang
and
van den Berg tested, if Biofeedback could help against the
space adaption syndrome.