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STS-7 began on June 18, 1983, with an on-time liftoff at 7:33:00 a.m. EDT. It was the first spaceflight of an American woman (Ride), the largest crew to fly in a single spacecraft up to that time (five people), and the first flight that included members of NASA's Group 8 astronaut class, which had been selected in 1978 to fly the Space Shuttle.
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. After the Challenger disaster , NASA returned to using a sequential numbering system, with the number counting from the beginning of the STS program.
STS-61-A in 1985 is the only flight to have both launched and landed with a crew of eight, and STS-71 in 1995 is the only other flight to have landed with a crew of eight. 1977 [ edit ]
The first fully functional orbiter was Columbia (designated OV-102), built in Palmdale, California. It was delivered to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on March 25, 1979, and was first launched on April 12, 1981—the 20th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight—with a crew of two.
STS-6 and STS-7 used SRBs 2,300 kg (5,000 lb) lighter due to walls that were 0.10 mm (.004 in) thinner, but were determined to be too thin to fly safely. Subsequent flights until STS-26 used cases that were 0.076 mm (.003 in) thinner than the standard-weight cases, which reduced 1,800 kg (4,000 lb).
STS-7: USA 18 June 1983 – 24 June 1983 LGBTQ person in space Sally K. Ride: STS-7: USA 18 June 1983 – 24 June 1983 Use of a launch escape system in an emergency: Vladimir Titov, Gennady Strekalov: Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L: USSR 26 September 1983 Six-person spaceflight in a single spacecraft
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STS-5 [89] William Lenoir United States Robert Overmyer United States 116: Karol Bobko United States: 4 April 1983: STS-6 [90] Story Musgrave United States Donald Peterson United States 119: Vladimir Titov Soviet Union: 20 April 1983: Soyuz T-8 [91] 120: John Fabian United States: 18 June 1983: STS-7 [92] Frederick Hauck United States Sally ...