{"id":508,"date":"2010-10-20T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=508"},"modified":"2010-10-20T09:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:54:28","slug":"experiments-microgravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/experiments-microgravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments in Microgravity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years ago today — October 20, 1995 — the Space Shuttle Columbia<\/em> launched from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying seven astronauts and the United States Microgravity Laboratory on its second mission.<\/p>\n

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\n(Close-up view of solid rocket booster and main engines during STS-73 launch. NASA image.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nThe launch was scrubbed six times before STS-73<\/a> got off the ground. Once in orbit, astronauts Kenneth D. Bowersox, Kent V. Rominger, Kathryn C. Thornton, Catherine G. Coleman, Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Fred W. Leslie, and Albert Sacco, Jr., spent over two weeks* performing a variety of experiments in fluid physics, materials science and processing, biotechnology, and combustion.<\/p>\n

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\n*Mission duration: 15 days, 21 hours, 52 minutes and change.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years ago today — October 20, 1995 — the Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying seven astronauts and the United States Microgravity Laboratory on its second mission. (Close-up view of solid rocket booster and main engines during STS-73 launch. NASA image.) The launch was scrubbed \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26,37,11,12],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-launch","tag-nasa","tag-space-history","tag-space-shuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}