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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 ...
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]
Both astronauts practiced using tools and procedures for the planned capture and repair of the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) satellite to be performed in a subsequent flight. [59] 49. STS-41-B EVA 2 Bruce McCandless Robert Stewart: 9 February 1984 10:24 9 February 1984 16:41 6 h 17 min McCandless and Stewart continued testing the MMUs.
An orbit near the craft's planned orbit was established, and the mission continued despite the abort to a lower orbit. [7] [8] The Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center observed an SSME failure and called "Challenger-Houston, abort ATO." The engine failure was later determined to be an inadvertent engine shutdown caused by faulty ...
It had been launched by the STS-41-C mission on April 7, 1984, and by January 1990 its orbit had decayed to about 175 nautical miles (324 km) and it was only a month or so away from re-entering the atmosphere and burning up. [23] The STS-32 mission lifted off from the KSC in the Space Shuttle Columbia on January 9, 1990. [24]
Hart was also member of the support crews for STS-1, STS-2, STS-3, and STS-7. He was Ascent and Orbit CAPCOM with the Mission Control Team for those flights. He flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-C (April 6–13, 1984) and has logged a total of 168 hours in space .
Car manufacturer Stellantis is recalling 211,581 SUVs and pickup trucks over a software malfunction that could cause their electronic stability control systems to fail.
ERBS was launched on October 5, 1984, by the Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-41-G mission and deactivated on October 14, 2005. [4] It re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on January 8, 2023, over the Bering Sea near the Aleutian Islands. [5] [6] NASA's CERES instruments have continued the ERB data record after 1997.