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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.
Launch date, time Launch site Orbit Satellites Outcome Remarks Altitude Inclination Deployed [4] w/DtC Working [4] – Simulators 1 v3 2025-F01 16 January 2025 22:37:00 [137] Starbase, OLP-A: 146 km (91 mi) 26.4° [20] 10 0 0 Failure SpaceX planned to test the deployment system for a new version of their Starlink satellites.
The crew was to consist of a commander and pilot, and the test flight was to last 2 days and 5 hours. No crew was named at the initial announcement of the mission, but John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen were officially announced as the STS-1 crew in March 1978, when the shuttle was still originally scheduled for a 1979 launch. [4] STS-2A OFT-2 ...
After the Challenger disaster in January 1986, there was a delay of 32 months before the next Shuttle launch. [7] A similar delay of 29 months occurred after the Columbia disaster in February 2003. [6] The longest Shuttle mission was STS-80 lasting 17 days, 15 hours. The final flight of the Space Shuttle program was STS-135 on July 8, 2011.
It was the fourth launch attempt for Discovery. Because of the two-month delay, the STS-41-F mission was canceled (STS-41-E had already been canceled), and its primary payloads were included on the STS-41-D flight. The combined cargo weighed over 18,681 kg (41,185 lb), a record for a Space Shuttle payload up to that time.
The eventual launch date of November 15, 1990, was set due to a payload problem. The launch window was between 18:30 and 22:30 EST. The launch occurred at 18:48:13 EST. The mission ended with a landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility, marking the first time in five years that a mission returned to the Kennedy Space Center since STS-51-D. This ...
Footage of the launch clocked up 7.2m views, according to a SpaceX livestream. The Starship system had lifted off from Boca Chica, Texas, at 17:38 EST (22:38 GMT) in the company's seventh test ...
STS-6 was the sixth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1983, the mission deployed the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite , TDRS-1 , into orbit, before landing at Edwards Air Force Base on April 9, 1983.