STS 60

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General

Launch id	94006
Launch date	3 Feb 1994 at 12:10 UT
Launch site	Cape Canaveral
Type	Discovery #18
Crew	7 persons (1 woman)
Landing date	11 Feb 1994
Landing site
Payload	B: Oderacs 1A C: Oderacs 1B D: Oderacs 1C E: Oderacs 1D F: Oderacs 1E G: Oderacs 1F H: Bremsat

On board was the Spacehab 2 (SH 2) facility to conduct 12 experiments. Among them were the following four GAS (Get Away Special) microgravity experiments: G-536--Pool Boiling experiment; G-557--Capillary Pumped Loop experiment; G-071--Ball Bearing experiment; and G-514--Orbiter Stability experiment. It also carried resources for high school/college science experiments.

Repeated efforts to deploy a three-meter diameter, retrievable shield (Wake Shield Facility) behind which pure crystals of Gallium Arsenide were planned to be grown were unsuccessful.

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External resources

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-60/mission-sts-60.html

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