STS-78 was the fifth dedicated Life and Microgravity Spacelab mission for the Space Shuttle program, flown partly in preparation for the International Space Station project. The mission used the Space Shuttle Columbia, which lifted off successfully from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B on June 20, 1996.

1996年6月20日 · Most extensive studies ever conducted on bone and muscle loss in space. STS-78 marked first time researchers collected muscle tissue biopsy samples both before and after flight. Crew members also were scheduled to undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans almost immediately after landing.

sts-78 是历史上第七十七次航天飞机任务，也是哥倫比亞號太空梭的第十七次太空飞行。

1996年6月20日 · The Canadian Space Agency (CSA)'s crest celebrating Bob Thirsk's flight aboard STS-78 features the art and mythology of Canada's West Coast native cultures. Central to the crest is a majestic eagle symbolizing Space Shuttle Columbia and its Life and Microgravity Spacelab Mission ( LMS ) payload.

STS 78 was a NASA shuttle spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral for a 17 day mission. It carried a Spacelab (LMS-1) with many supplies and instruments for 41 microgravity experiments involving fish embryos, rats, Bonzai plants, fluid dynamics, metallurgy, protein crystal growth, etc.

The STS-78 Space Shuttle Program Mission Report summarizes the Payload activities as well as the Orbiter, External Tank (ET), Solid Rocket Booster (SRB), Reusable Solid Rocket Motor (RSRM), and the Space Shuttle main engine (SSME) systems performance during the seventy-eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Program, the fifty-third flight since the ...

STS-78 任务的主要目标是利用搭载在哥伦比亚号货舱内的Spacelab（生命与微重力实验室）进行一系列关于微重力对人类和生物体影响的实验，并研究材料在微重力环境下的变化。

罗伯特·瑟斯克 （Robert Thirsk， 加拿大 宇航员，曾执行STS-78任务），有效载荷专家 佩德罗·杜克 （Pedro Duque， 西班牙 宇航员，曾执行 STS-95 、 联盟TMA-3 以及 联盟TMA-2 任务）

1996年6月20日 · STS-78 microgravity science experiments involved basic fluid physics investigations, advanced semiconductor and metal alloy materials processing, and medical research in protein crystal growth. These were conducted primarily through "telescience", a mode of operation where scientists on the ground remotely command experiments in orbit.

Click here for Additional Info on STS-78. The scheduled 15-day, 21-hour STS-78 Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS) mission will help set the stage for the International Space Station by studying the effects of long-duration space flight on human physiology and conducting the type of experiments that would fly on the orbital platform.