keithl (11/09/82)
Someone expressed interest in the schedule for the shuttles. The following schedule is culled from the November issues of Space World and Astronautics& Aeronautics. Much more information there... Shuttle Flights: # OV- Crew Comments 5 102 11/11-15/82 4 Comsats; SBS-C and Telesat E, EVA 6 99 1/20-23/83 4 TDRS-A, CFES Electrophoresis System first flight Challenger, light ext. tank, 104% thrust 7 99 4/20-26/83 4 satellites, CFES, Sally Ride first US fem. in space 8 99 7/ 4- 7/83 4 satellites, CFES, 109% thrust, high perf. solids 9 99 10/ 1- 8/83 6 Spacelab 10 99 12/14- ?/83 ? DOD, Teal Ruby Sat. 11 102 1/29-2/5/84 12 103 3/18-23/84 first flight Discovery 13 99 4/17-22/84 Solar Max rescue, Long Dur. Exposure Facility(LDEF) 14 102 5/17-22/84 15 103 6/12-15/84 16 99 7/ 8- ?/84 ? DOD 17 102 8/ 3-10/84 18 103 8/28-9/2/84 19 99 9/23-10/1/84 Spacelab 20 102 10/18-25/84 21 103 11/13-20/84 Spacelab 22 99 12/ 9- ?/84 DOD 23 102 1/ 9-16/85 24 103 2/ 2- ?/85 DOD 25 99 2/28-3/3/85 Space Telescope, Retreive LDEF 26 102 4/ 1- 6/85 27 99 5/ 1- 3/85 Galileo 28 104 5/29-6/5/85 Large Structures Test, first flight Atlantis 29 102 6/25-7/2/85 Spacelab 30 99 7/23-28/85 31 104 8/17-? /85 DOD 32 102 9/14-21/85 Keith Lofstrom uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,chico,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!teklabs!tekcad!keithl CSnet: tekcad!keithl@tek ARPAnet:tekcad!keithl.tek@udel-relay
heliotis (11/15/82)
Does anyone know when a ship other than Columbia will first be used?
sjb (11/16/82)
Challenger will make its debut flight in January, 1983. Discovery will be unveiled in December, 1983, and will fly sometime early in 1984. Atlantis will roll out in December, 1984, and will fly sometime in 1985.
CSvax:sbm (11/16/82)
Might I suggest that questions and information pertaining to the space shuttle be posted to net.columbia? After all, that is what that news group is for, and the question about shuttles other than the Columbia has already been answered there in articles posted in the past few weeks. Steven Munson Purdue University