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STS-41-C post flight presentation, narrated by the astronauts (19 minutes). STS-41-C launched successfully at 8:58 a.m. EST on April 6, 1984. The mission marked the first direct ascent trajectory for the Space Shuttle; Challenger reached its 533 km (331 mi) - high orbit using its Orbiter Maneuvering System (OMS) engines only once, to ...
It was first tested on February 7 during mission STS-41-B by astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart. Two months later, during mission STS-41-C , astronauts James van Hoften and George Nelson attempted to use the MMU to capture the Solar Maximum Mission satellite and to bring it into the orbiter's payload bay for repairs and servicing.
STS-41 launches from Kennedy Space Center, on October 6, 1990. Ulysses after deployment. Discovery lifted off on October 6 1990 at 7:47:16 a.m. EDT. Liftoff occurred 12 minutes after a two-and-a-half-hour launch window opened that day at 7:35 a.m. EDT. STS-41 featured the heaviest payload to date; Discovery weighed 117,749 kg (259,592 lb). [2]
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 ...
He served as Lead Data Processing Systems (DPS) Officer for STS-9 (Spacelab-1) and STS-41-D, Orbit DPS for STS-41-B and STS-41-C, and Ascent/Entry DPS for STS-41-G. He also served as a senior flight controller addressing issues requiring real-time resolution, for several flights from STS-51-A through STS-51-L. [ 3 ]
STS-41-C, Challenger: 13 April 1984 STS-41-C, Challenger: LDEF deployed for later retrieval. Capture, repair and redeployment of malfunctioning Solar Maximum Mission satellite. 101 Vladimir Dzhanibekov (4) Igor Volk Svetlana Savitskaya (2) 17 July 1984 Soyuz T-12: Salyut 7: 29 July 1984 Soyuz T-12: First EVA by a female astronaut (Savitskaya ...
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The failed unit had been temporarily stored on an ORU site on the MBS, then moved to ESP-2 by the STS-133 crew, [12] then returned to earth by the STS-135 crew July 13, 2011. A failed Control Moment Gyroscope was installed on FRAM-5 from August 13, 2007 during STS-118 [13] until February 13, 2008 when it was returned by STS-122. [14]