slr@skep2.ATT.COM (Shelley.L.Rosenbaum.[ho95c]) (04/05/89)
As promised, here are the summaries for the 13th through 18th
flights of the space shuttle:
STS-41-G (flight 13): Challenger
Launched 10/5/84 7:03 a.m. EDT KSC
Landed 10/13/84 12:26 p.m. EDT KSC
Robert Crippen (CDR), Jon McBride (PLT), David Leestma (MS1),
Sally Ride (MS2), Kathrn Sullivan (MS3), Paul Scully-Power (PS1),
Marc Garneau (PS2)
Largest flight crew launched on single spacecraft; Crippen flies
fourth shuttle mission (more than anyone else); Kathryn Sullivan
first American woman to walk in space; Garneau (first Canadian
to fly in space) performed experiments on space technology and
Earth and space sciences; first demo of satellite refueling in
space; Earth Radiation Budge Experiment satellite deployed; Shuttle
Imaging Radar data recorded; Scully-Power (oceanographer) observed
ocean phenomena in real-time; Large Format Camera used to take
photos of every continent; Earth pollution measured using MAPS
(Measurement of Air Pollution using Satellites).
STS-51-A (flight 14): Discovery
Launched 11/8/84 7:15 a.m. EST KSC
Landed 11/16/84 7:00 a.m. EST KSC
Frederick Hauck (CDR), David Walker (PLT), Anna Fisher (MS1),
Dale Gardner (MS2), Joseph Allen (MS3)
Deployed two satellites (Anik D-2/Telesat H, Canada; Leasat 1);
retrieved two disabled satellites (Palapa B-2 and Westar VI)
after spacewalk (with MMUs) of Allen and Gardner.
STS-51-C (flight 15): Discovery
Launched 1/24/85 2:50 p.m. EST KSC
Landed 1/27/85 4:23 p.m. PST Edwards AFB
Thomas Mattingly (CDR), Loren Shriver (PLT), James Buchli (MS1),
Ellison Onizuka (MS2), Gary Payton (PS1)
First DoD mission; Air Force Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster
rocket deployed; probably deployed a spysat.
STS-51-D (flight 16): Discovery
Launched 4/12/85 8:59 a.m. EST KSC
Landed 4/19/85 8:55 a.m. EST KSC
Karol Bobko (CDR), Donald Williams (PLT), M. Rhea Seddon (MS1),
S. David Griggs (MS2), Jeffrey Hoffman (MS3), Charles Walker (PS1),
Senator E.J. "Jake" Garn (PS2)
Anik C-1 (Canada) satellite successfully deployed; Leasat 3
deployed but sequencer failed to initiate antenna deployment,
spin-up, and ignition of perigee kick motor; mechanical arm used
to close switch on Leasat, allowing internal rockets to fire;
Jake Garn subject of experimentation on space-sickness; one main
landing gear tires blown out on landing (other badly frayed);
substantial other mechanical damage noted on landing.
STS-51-B (flight 17): Challenger-Spacelab 3
Launched 4/29/85 12:02 p.m. EDT KSC
Landed 5/6/85 9:11 p.m. PDT Edwards AFB
Robert Overmyer (CDR), Frederick Gregory (PLT), Don Lind (MS1),
Norman Thagard (MS2), William Thornton (MS3),
Lodewijk van den Berg (PS1), Taylor Wang (PS2)
14 of 15 experiments flown in Spacelab successful; 2 monkeys and
24 rats observed for effects of weightlessness; materials-processing
and fluid experiments carried out; NUSAT (Norther Utah Satellite)
and GLOMR (Global Low-Orbiting Message Relay Satellite) deployed
(both were "cheapsats"); some damage to brakes on landing.
STS-51-G (flight 18): Discovery
Launched 6/17/85 7:33 a.m. EDT KSC
Landed 6/24/85 6:11 p.m. PDT Edwards AFB
Daniel Brandenstein (CDR), John Creighton (PLT), Shannon Lucid (MS1),
Steven Nagel (MS2), John Fabian (MS3), Patrick Baudry (PS1),
Sultan Salman Al-Saud (PS2)
Morelos 1 (Mexico), Arabsat 1-B (Arab Satellite Communications
Organization), and Telstar 3-D (AT&T) successfully deployed;
experiments analyzed liquid-sloshing behavior in microgravity and
slipcasting under microgravity; materials-processing furnace used
in experiments; two French experiments in human physiology performed;
SDI experiment (High-Precision Tracking Experiment) tested;
Spartan 1 (Shuttle-Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy)
spacecraft deployed and retrieved.
--
Shelley L. Rosenbaum, Air Traffic Control Systems, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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