With its drag chute deployed, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia touches down on Runway 33 at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility after completing mission STS-94. During the Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1) mission, the Spacelab module was used to test some of the hardware, facilities and procedures that are planned for use on the International Space Station while the flight crew conducted combustion, protein crystal growth and materials processing experiments. This mission was a reflight of the STS-83 mission that lifted off from KSC in April of this year. That space flight was cut short due to indications of a faulty fuel cell. This was Columbias 11th landing at KSC and the 38th landing at the space center in the history of the Shuttle program.
* Image credit - Kennedy Space Center
* This text was adapted from a photo caption from the Kennedy Space Center.
