STS-65 Mission Patch

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.