slr@skep2.ATT.COM (Shelley.L.Rosenbaum.[ho95c]) (04/06/89)
This is the final posting on the shuttle missions; again, I'd
like to recommend the book, _Space Shuttle Log, The First 25
Flights_, by Gene Gurney and Jeff Forte. (That's where I got
this info.)
STS-51-F (flight 19): Challenger/Spacelab 2
Launched 7/29/85 5:00 p.m. EDT KSC
Landed 8/6/85 12:45 p.m. PDT Edwards AFB
Charles Fullerton (CDR), Roy Bridges (PLT), F. Story Musgrave (MS1),
Anthony England (MS2), Karl Henize (MS3), Loren Acton (PS1),
John-David Bartoe (PS2)
Launch scrubbed on 7/12 at T-3 seconds due to malfunction of
coolant valve on #2 engine; #1 engine failed during launch,
causing ATO (Abort To Orbit); verified performance of
Spacelab systems; determined interface capability of shuttle;
measured shuttle-induced environment; other experiments performed
included life sciences, plasma physics, astronomy, high-energy
astrophysics, solar physics, atmospheric physics, and technology
research.
STS-51-I (flight 20): Discovery
Launched 8/27/85 6:58 a.m. EDT KSC
Landed 9/3/85 6:16 a.m. PDT Edwards AFB
Joe Engle (CDR), Richard Covey (PLT), James Van Hoften (MS1),
John Lounge (MS2), William Fisher (MS3)
Launced through hole in storm front; AUSSAT-1, ASC-1, and Leasat-4
deployed; Fisher and Van Hoften EVA to repair and redeploy Leasat-3.
STS-51-J (flight 21): Atlantis
Launched 10/3/85 11:15 a.m. EDT KSC
Landed 10/7/85 10:00 p.m. PDT Edwards AFB
Karol Bobko (CDR), Ronald Grabe (PLT), Robert Stewart (MS1),
David Hilmers (MS2), William Pailes (PS1)
Second DoD mission; first flight of Atlantis.
STS-61-A (flight 22): Challenger/Spacelab D-1 (German Spacelab)
Launched 10/30/85 12:00 noon EST KSC
Landed 11/6/85 9:45 a.m. PST Edwards AFB
Henry Hartsfield (CDR), Steven Nagel (PLT), James Buchli (MS1),
Guion Bluford (MS2), Bonnie Dunbar (MS3), Reinhard Furrer (PS1),
Ernst Messerschmid (PS2), Wubbo Ockels (PS3)
201-sm orbit, inclination 57 degrees to equator; largest crew
launched on single flight; experiments included basic and
applied microgravity research for materials science, life
sciences and technology, communications, and navigation; Global
Low-Orbiting Message Relay Satellite (GLOMR, a getaway-special)
deployed.
STS-61-B (flight 23): Atlantis
Launched 11/26/85 7:29 p.m. EST KSC
Landed 12/3/85 1:33 p.m. PST Edwards AFB
Brewster Shaw, Jr. (CDR), Bryan O'Connor (PLT), Mary Cleave (MS1),
Sherwood Spring (MS2), Jerry Ross (MS3), Rodolfo Neri (PS1),
Charles Walker (PS2)
Morelos-B (Mexico), AUSSAT-2 (Australia), and Satcom Ku-2 (RCA)
successfully deployed; experimented with feasibility of
assembling structures in space (EASE - Experimental Assembly of
Structures in EVA, and ACCESS - Assembly Concept for Construction
of Erectable Space Structures), performed by Ross and Spring;
Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System flown for third time
(operated by Walker - [his 3rd shuttle flight...although he's
a Payload Specialist, he's flown more than most career astronauts!
-ed]); Neri first Mexican national flown into space.
STS-61-C (flight 24): Columbia
Launched 1/12/86 6:55 a.m. EST KSC
Landed 1/18/86 5:58 a.m. PST Edwards AFB
Robert "Hoot" Gibson (CDR), Charles Bolden (PLT),
Franklin Chang-Diaz (MS1), Steven Hawley (MS2),
George "Pinky" Nelson (MS3), Robert Cenker (PS1),
Representative Bill Nelson (PS2)
Satcom Ku-1 (RCA) successfully deployed; Halley's Comet photo
experiment failed due to battery problems; mission extended
one day due to weather at KSC, although still wound up landing
at EAFB.
STS-51-L (flight 25): Challenger
[*sigh*. I suppose I'll just detail what they were *supposed*
to accomplish. -ed]
Launched 1/28/86 11:38 a.m. EST KSC
Exploded 1/28/86 11:39:23 a.m.
Francis "Dick" Scobee (CDR), Michael Smith (PLT), Judy Resnick (MS1),
El Onizuka (MS2), Ronald McNair (MS3), Christa McAuliffe (PS1),
Gregory Jarvis (PS2)
Supposed to deploy TDRS-B; Spartan Halley experiment to be performed;
Teacher-in-Space project
--
Shelley L. Rosenbaum, Air Traffic Control Systems, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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