STS-90 Mission Patch

STS-90 Final Spacelab mission

04/17/1998

05/03/1998

90th Space Shuttle Mission

25th Flight of Columbia

Crew:

• Richard A. Searfoss, Commander
• Scott D. Altman, Pilot
• Richard M. Linnehan, Payload Commander and Mission Specialist
• Dafydd Rhys Williams, Mission Specialist, Canadian Space Agency
• Kathryn P. Hire, Mission Specialist
• Jay C. Buckey, Payload Specialist
• James A. Pawelczyk, Payload Specialist

This marked the final flight of the Spacelab pressurized laboratory module housed in the Space Shuttle payload bay. For this mission, the Spacelab module was configured as "Neurolab", named in honor of dedicated research on the nervous system.