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STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and also the fourth for Space Shuttle Columbia. Crewed by Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield , the mission launched on June 27, 1982, [ 1 ] and landed a week later on July 4, 1982. [ 2 ]
For example, the STS-116 rescue mission was branded STS-317, because the normal mission scheduled after STS-116 was STS-117. Should the rescue mission have been needed, the crew and vehicle for STS-117 would assume the rescue mission profile and become STS-317. All potential rescue missions were to be launched with a crew of four, and would ...
Mission Shuttle Duration Commander Pilot Mission specialists Payload specialists 1 April 12 1981 STS-1: Columbia: 2 d 6 h: Young: Crippen: 2 November 12 1981 STS-2: Columbia: 2 d 6 h Engle: Truly: 3 March 22 1982 STS-3: Columbia: 8 d 0 h Lousma: Fullerton: 4 June 27 1982 STS-4: Columbia: 7 d 1 h Mattingly: Hartsfield: 5 November 11 1982 STS-5 ...
Columbia originally had modified SR-71 zero-zero ejection seats installed for the ALT and first four missions, but these were disabled after STS-4 and removed after STS-9. [3]: 370–371 Atlantis was the first Shuttle to fly with a glass cockpit, on STS-101.
While the "Return to Flight" mission STS-114 in 2005 was successful, a similar piece of foam from a different portion of the tank was shed. Although the debris did not strike Discovery, the program was grounded once again for this reason. The second "Return to Flight" mission, STS-121 launched on July 4, 2006, at 14:37 (EDT). Two previous ...
Kathryn D. Sullivan (Mission Specialist) The STS-61-J mission was intended to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. The telescope was eventually launched on STS-31 in 1990, with the same crew on board (except Young, who was replaced by Loren Shriver). [16] [19] STS-61-N 4 September 1986 Discovery: Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. (Commander)
In May 2009 Atlantis flew a seven-member crew to the Hubble Space Telescope for its Servicing Mission 4, STS-125. [20] The mission was a success, with the crew completing five spacewalks totaling 37 hours to install new cameras, batteries, a gyroscope and other components to the telescope. This was the final mission not to rendezvous with the ISS.
The STS 51-C mission marked the third trip of the Space Shuttle Discovery into space, which is referenced by the three colored trailing strips behind the orbiter in the United States red, white and blue. It was the first Space Shuttle mission totally dedicated to the U.S. Department of Defense, hence the DoD central eagle on the mission patch.