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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.
After STS-115, the rescue mission designations were based on the corresponding regular mission that would be replaced should the rescue mission be needed. For example, the STS-116 rescue mission was branded STS-317, because the normal mission scheduled after STS-116 was STS-117. Should the rescue mission have been needed, the crew and vehicle ...
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.
The crew of five were to consist of three NASA astronauts and two European payload specialists. The mission was to last seven days. This first Spacelab mission was later launched as STS-9 in November 1983. STS-12 30 January 1981 Columbia: Edwards: The crew of three were to place the satellites TDRS-C and Anik-C2 into orbit during the 2-day mission.
Spacelab was an extremely large program, and this was enhanced by different experiments and multiple payloads and configurations over two decades. For example, in a subset of just one part of the Spacelab 1 (STS-9) mission, no less than eight different imaging systems were flown into space.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, during an event in Seoul, South Korea, on June 9, 2023.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Stephen F. Bollenbach joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -99.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a 3.9 percent return from the S&P 500.
STS-91 was the 24th flight of Discovery, and the final Space Shuttle mission to the Mir space station. It was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery , and launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida, on 2 June 1998.