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STS-9 (also referred to Spacelab 1) [1] was the ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the sixth mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Launched on November 28, 1983, the ten-day mission carried the first Spacelab laboratory module into orbit.
On STS-9, he used a handheld 2-meter radio, provided by the Motorola Amateur Radio Club in Fort Lauderdale, to talk to his mother, senator Barry Goldwater (K7UGA), King Hussein of Jordan (JY1), and many others. Garriott made approximately 300 calls and convinced NASA that amateur radio was useful to get students involved in space.
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 return with ten or eleven crew members, depending on the number of crew launched on the rescued shuttle.
Joseph R. Tanner (Mission Specialist 3) Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper (Mission Specialist 4) Assembly mission to the International Space Station, which was ultimately launched with the same crew on Atlantis in 2006. [31] [32] STS-116: 24 July 2003 Atlantis: Terry Wilcutt (Commander) William Oefelein (Pilot) Christer Fuglesang, ESA (Mission ...
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.
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They conduct combat search and rescue missions, collect intelligence, as well as call in close air support or airstrikes against enemy combatants and are often partnered with other U.S. special operations forces overseas. [2] The squadron absorbed the personnel and equipment of Detachment 1, 720th Special Tactics Group when it was activated in ...
STS-3 was NASA's third Space Shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on March 22, 1982, and landed eight days later on March 30, 1982. The mission, crewed by Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton, involved extensive orbital endurance testing of Columbia itself, as well as numerous scientific ...