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Second African-American Space Shuttle pilot, Charles Bolden; Last successful mission before STS-51-L [72] [73] 25 28 January 1986 16:38:00 UTC 11:38:00 EST STS-51-L: Challenger: 7 00d 00h 01m 13s LC-39B: Did not land [b] Planned tracking and data relay satellite deployment; Teacher in space flight; First Space Shuttle launch from LC-39B
The Shuttle–Mir program (Russian: Программа «Мир»–«Шаттл») [a] was a collaborative space program between Russia and the United States that involved American Space Shuttles visiting the Russian space station Mir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to allow American astronauts to engage in long-duration ...
The original intention was to compensate for this lower payload by lowering the per-launch costs and a high launch frequency. However, the actual costs of a Space Shuttle launch were higher than initially predicted, and the Space Shuttle did not fly the intended 24 missions per year as initially predicted by NASA. [66] [28]: III–489–490
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferry flights generally originated at Edwards Air Force Base in California or on one occasion White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico following missions which landed there, especially in the early days of the Space Shuttle program or when weather at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at Kennedy Space Center prevented ...
16. Soyuz TM-16: 24 January 1993 05:58:05 ~177 days 22 July 1993 06:41:50 Gennadi Manakov. Aleksandr Poleshchuk. Delivered the EO-13 crew to Mir. Became the only Soyuz spacecraft to dock at Kristall's distal APAS-89 port in order to check the port in preparation for the Shuttle-Mir flights which followed. [4] [5] 17. Soyuz TM-17: 1 July 1993 14 ...
The original intention was to compensate for this lower payload by lowering the per-launch costs and a high launch frequency. However, the actual costs of a Space Shuttle launch were higher than initially predicted, and the Space Shuttle did not fly the intended 24 missions per year as initially predicted by NASA. [54] [24]: III–489–490
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.
13:07:22 [1] Space Shuttle Endeavour [7] Kennedy LC-39B United Space Alliance STS-57: NASA Low Earth Microgravity: 1 July 12:52: Successful SpaceHab LSM: NASA/SpaceHab: Low Earth (Endeavour) Scientific research Crewed orbital flight with six astronauts; Retrieved European Retrievable Carrier: 24 June 04:12:41 Tsyklon-3 Plesetsk VKS Kosmos 2252 ...