The Spacelab D2 mission (STS-55), utilising the American space shuttle Columbia, was launched on April 26th, 1993. The mission incorporated the ESA astronauts Schlegel and Walter. This video covers some of the highlights of the mission, and is arranged as follows:
PRE-LAUNCH AND LAUNCH ACTIVITIES: pre-launch astronauts seated around dinner table; crew in suit-up room; waving astronauts leave operations and checkout building; van drives along Saturn causeway; shuttle and launcher on launchpad; crew in white room; shuttle launch control room; retraction of crew access arm, retraction of hood from external tank; ignition; launch and flight sequence, including footage of main booster falling towards Earth.
PAYLOAD BAY DOORS OPEN, SPACELAB D-2 ACTIVATION: doors open, view over payload with Earth in background; astronaut's point of view journey through shuttle; astronauts work inside Spacelab D-2.
SPACELAB D-2 EXPERIMENTS: crew member wearing eye apparatus operates Rotex robotic arm, camera gives arm's point of vi

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