STS-65 Mission Patch
MP65
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63rd Space Shuttle Mission
17th Flight of Columbia
Crew:
- Robert D. Cabana, Commander
- James D. Halsell, Jr., Pilot
- Richard J. Hieb, Payload Commander
- Donald A. Thomas, Science Mission Specialist
- Carl E. Walz, Mission Specialist
- Leroy Chiao, Mission Specialist
- Chiaki Naito-Mukai, Payload Specialist
Astronaut Chiaki Naito-Mukai became the first Japanese woman to fly in space. This was the second flight of the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2). Nearly 80 experiments representing over 200 scientists from six space agencies were located in the pressurized Spacelab module in the payload bay.
