STS 62

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General

Launch id	94015
Launch date	4 Mar 1994
Launch site	Cape Canaveral
Type	Columbia #16
Crew	Casper Allen Thuot Geman Ivins
Landing date	18 Mar 1994
Landing site	Cape Canaveral
Payload

It carried a U.S. Microgravity Payload (USMP 2) and an Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology Second payload (OAST 2). Among the experiments were the Solar Array Module Plasma Interaction Experiment (SAMPIE), the Thermal Energy Storage (TES) experiment, the Experimental Investigation of Spacecraft Glow (EISG) experiment, the Spacecraft Kinetic InfraRed Test (SKIRT) experiment, the Emulsion Chamber Technology (ECT) experiment, and the CRYOgenic Two Phase (CRYOTP) experiment. A new high-speed, Ku-band communication link between mission control and the shuttle enabled transmission of 162 megabytes of data.

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External resources

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-62/mission-sts-62.html

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