STS-58

**STS-58**
Organization	NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States),NASA Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications (United States)
Mission type	Engineering,Human Crew,Life Science
Launch date	October 18, 1993
Launch vehicle	Space Shuttle
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, United States
COSPAR ID	1993-065A
Inclination	39 degrees
Experiments	Here
Alternate Names	SLS 2/STS 58,22869
Additional Information	Here
PDMP Information	Here
Telecommunications Information	Here
Data Collection	Here
Payload Mass Up	10517 kg
Payload Mass Down	10540 kg
Orbiter	Columbia
Lift Off Mass	2,054,530.91 kg
Orbiter Weight at Liftoff	116,366.82 kg
Orbiter Weight at Landing	104,433.18 kg
Landed	Concrete runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Orbits of Earth	225
Orbital Altitude	153 nautical miles (176 statute miles)

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[edit] Crew

Commander: John E. Blaha
Pilot: Richard A. Searfoss
- Payload Commander: M. Rhea Seddon
- Mission Specialist 1: Shannon W. Lucid
- Mission Specialist 2: David A. Wolf
- Mission Specialist 3: William S. McArthur Jr.
- Mission Specialist 4:
- Mission Specialist 5:
- Payload Specialist 1: Martin J. Fettman
- Payload Specialist 2:

ISS/Mir Crew Transport

[edit] Mission

STS 58 was the 15 flight of the orbiter Columbia. The primary payload for this mission was the second flight of the Spacelab Life Sciences (SLS 2) cargo bay payload. In addition to activities involved with the SLS 2 payload, seven experiments providing additional information for on-going medical studies supporting the Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO) Medical Project were performed. The EDO Medical Project is designed to assess the impact of long duration spaceflight (>10 days) on astronaut health, identify any operational medical concerns, and test countermeasures for the adverse effects of weightlessness on human physiology. Only three of the EDO experiments took place in-flight; the other four occurred prior and/or subsequent to the mission. An additional experiment performed on this flight was the Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment, or OARE. The main goal of the experiment was to measure the Shuttle's aeordynamic forces (drag) in orbit and during the early stages of re-entry. This was the third flight of this experiment. Astronauts also participated in the eleventh flight of the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX).