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These codes were assigned when the launches were initially scheduled and were not changed as missions were delayed or rescheduled. [6] The codes were adopted from STS-41-B through STS-51-L (although the highest code used was actually STS-61-C), and the sequential numbers were used internally at NASA on all processing paperwork.
III-355 STS-135 launched on July 8, 2011, and landed at the KSC on July 21, 2011, at 5:57 a.m. EDT (09:57 UTC). [28]: III-398 From then until the launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2 on May 30, 2020, the US launched its astronauts aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft. [31] Following each orbiter's final flight, it was processed to make it safe for display.
III-355 STS-135 launched on July 8, 2011, and landed at the KSC on July 21, 2011, at 5:57 a.m. EDT (09:57 UTC). [24]: III-398 From then until the launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2 on May 30, 2020, the US launched its astronauts aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft. [63] Following each orbiter's final flight, it was processed to make it safe for display.
STS-33: Launched DOD Magnum ELINT satellite. 5 days, 00 hours, 06 minutes, 49 seconds 10 April 24, 1990: STS-31: Launch of Hubble Space Telescope (HST). 5 days, 01 hours, 16 minutes, 06 seconds 11 October 6, 1990: STS-41: Launch of Ulysses. 4 days, 02 hours, 10 minutes, 04 seconds 12 April 28, 1991: STS-39: Launched DOD Air Force Program-675 ...
STS-51-D was the 16th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the fourth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. [2] The launch of STS-51-D from Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, on April 12, 1985, was delayed by 55 minutes, after a boat strayed into the restricted Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) recovery zone. STS-51-D was the third shuttle ...
STS-43, the ninth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a nine-day mission whose primary goal was launching the TDRS-E satellite (TDRS-5). The flight also tested an advanced heatpipe radiator for potential use on the then-future space station and conducted a variety of medical and materials science investigations.
STS-132 (ISS assembly flight ULF4) [5] was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on May 16, 2010. [6] STS-132 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on May 14, 2010. [3]
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches from Kennedy Space Center on STS-134. Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center 's Launch Complex 39 at 08:56 EDT on May 16, 2011. The launch of Endeavour came after an on-time tanking process which filled the shuttle's external tank with more than 1,900,000 L (500,000 US gallons) of liquid oxygen and ...