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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.
Should the rescue mission have been needed, the crew and vehicle for STS-117 would assume the rescue mission profile and become STS-317. All potential rescue missions were to be launched with a crew of four, and would return with ten or eleven crew members, depending on the number of crew launched on the rescued shuttle.
STS-66 was a Space Shuttle program mission that was flown by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-66 launched on November 3, 1994, at 11:59:43.060 am EDT from Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base on November 14, 1994, at 10:33:45 am EST.
3 March 22 1982 STS-3: Columbia: 8 d 0 h Lousma: Fullerton: 4 June 27 1982 STS-4: Columbia: 7 d 1 h Mattingly: Hartsfield: 5 November 11 1982 STS-5: Columbia: 5 d 2 h Brand: Overmyer: J. Allen: Lenoir: 6 April 4 1983 STS-6: Challenger: 5 d 0 h Weitz: Bobko: Peterson: Musgrave: 7 June 18 1983 STS-7: Challenger: 6 d 2 h Crippen: Hauck: Fabian ...
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On STS-9, he used a handheld 2-meter radio, provided by the Motorola Amateur Radio Club in Fort Lauderdale, to talk to his mother, senator Barry Goldwater (K7UGA), King Hussein of Jordan (JY1), and many others. Garriott made approximately 300 calls and convinced NASA that amateur radio was useful to get students involved in space.
Parker points instruments on ASTRO-1 on Columbia's aft flight deck during STS-35. Parker was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967. [3] He was a member of the Astronaut Support Crews for the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, and was the person to whom the final words spoken by a man standing on the surface of the Moon (Gene Cernan) were addressed.
The Prometheus 2A and 2B cubesats have been built by In-Space Missions for the UK Ministry of Defence and the NRO and they would've provided a test platform for monitoring radio signals. [32] The STP-CR2301 mission was successfully launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket on 12 June 2023 as part of the Transporter-8 rideshare mission. [33]