STS-58

STS-58 was Columbia's October-November 1993 Spacelab Life Sciences-2 mission. NASA lists John Blaha as commander, Richard Searfoss as pilot, M. Rhea Seddon as payload commander, William McArthur, David Wolf, and Shannon Lucid as mission specialists, and Martin Fettman as payload specialist. Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B on October 18, 1993, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on November 1. SLS-2 was the second dedicated Shuttle life-sciences mission. The crew worked in the Spacelab module on fourteen investigations covering regulatory physiology, cardiovascular and pulmonary function, musculoskeletal adaptation, neuroscience, and related human and animal research. NASA's retrospective notes that Fettman was the first veterinarian in space and that the fourteen-day flight was the longest Shuttle mission up to that time. Adding this mission fills Shannon Lucid's missing STS-58 link and connects the full seven-person crew to Columbia, the Shuttle family, Launch Complex 39B, Edwards Air Force Base, NASA as operator, and ESA's Spacelab module context.