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Mission STS-78

The Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), a culmination of extensive efforts by an international team of scientists, engineers and support personnel, flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-78, the longest mission in the history of shuttle flights (17 days). Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk actively participated in the diverse slate of life and microgravity experiments, a total of 41 in all, conducted on board LMS, the reusable laboratory designed to allow scientists to perform experiments in microgravity conditions.