Oct 20 1995
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-73) is launched. During the mission Columbia provided a calm, stable platform for 16 days of on-orbit research using the Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) Spacelab that consisted of over 40 fluid-physics, material science, and biotechnology experiments. Columbia landed on November 5. Columbia's window was nicked by space debris. The Space Shuttle also received a 1 cm crater in its cargo bay door, the biggest impact to date. (NASA Release 95-152; NY Times, Oct 21/95, Oct 22/95, Oct 27/95 & Nov 5/95; W Post, Oct 29/95 & Nov 6/95; Fla Today, Oct 27/95, Nov 3/95 & Nov 4/95; USA Today, Nov 6/95; Space News, Nov 6/95 & Dec 4/95; Av Wk, Nov 13/95)
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