STS-40 Mission Patch

41st Space Shuttle Mission

11th Flight of Columbia Crew:

Bryan D. O'Connor, Commander

Sidney M. Gutierrez, Pilot

James P. Bagian, Mission Specialist

Tamara E. Jernigan, Mission Specialist

M. Rhea Seddon, Mission Specialist

F. Drew Gaffney, Payload Specialist

Millie Hughes-Fulford, Payload Specialist

This was the fifth dedicated Spacelab mission, manifested as Spacelab Life Sciences-1 (SLS-1), the first Spacelab dedicated exclusively to life sciences. The mission recorded the most detailed and complete physiological measurements in space since the Skylab program.