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STS-7 was NASA's seventh Space Shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger. During the mission, Challenger deployed several satellites into orbit. The shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on June 24, 1983.
STS-300 was the designation for the Space Shuttle Launch on Need (LON) missions to be launched on short notice for STS-114 and STS-121, in the event that the shuttle became disabled or damaged and could not safely return to Earth.
Thagard first flew on the crew of STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 18, 1983. This was the second flight for the Orbiter Challenger and the first mission with a crew of five.
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.
STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program, ... Columbia launched successfully from Kennedy Space Center at 6:55:00 a.m. EST on January 12, 1986 ...
STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) [3] was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. [4] [5] It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown. STS-135 launched on July 8, 2011, and landed on July 21, 2011, following a one-day mission extension.
7 days, 02 hours, 17 minutes, 42 seconds 7 September 29, 1988: STS-26: Return to flight after Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, launched TDRS-3. 4 days, 01 hours, 00 minutes, 11 seconds 8 March 13, 1989: STS-29: Launched TDRS-4. 4 days, 23 hours, 38 minutes, 52 seconds 9 November 22, 1989: STS-33: Launched DOD Magnum ELINT satellite. 5 days ...
The STS-88 Space Shuttle mission followed two weeks after Zarya was launched, bringing Unity, the first of three node modules, and connecting it to Zarya. This bare 2-module core of the ISS remained uncrewed for the next one and a half years, until in July 2000 the Russian module Zvezda was launched by a Proton rocket, allowing a maximum crew ...