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STS-7 began on June 18, 1983, with an on-time liftoff at 7:33:00 a.m. EDT. It was the first spaceflight of an American woman (Ride), the largest crew to fly in a single spacecraft up to that time (five people), and the first flight that included members of NASA's Group 8 astronaut class, which had been selected in 1978 to fly the Space Shuttle.
STS-42: Discovery: 7 08d 01h LC-39A: Edwards: Spacelab mission; First Canadian woman in space, Roberta Bondar [116] [117] 46 24 March 1992 13:13:40 UTC 08:13:40 EST STS-45: Atlantis: 7 08d 22h LC-39A: Kennedy SLF: ATLAS-1 science platform; Second African-American Space Shuttle commander, Charles Bolden [118] [119] 47 7 May 1992 23:40:00 UTC 19: ...
All-time (and while on a planetary body [52]): 7.6 kilometers [53]: 1144 (4.7 miles, 25,029 feet [54]), Apollo 17, Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, EVA-2, December 12, 1972. During their second of three moonwalks, Cernan and Schmitt rode the Lunar Roving Vehicle to geological station 2, Nansen Crater , at the foot of the South Massif .
III-355 STS-135 launched on July 8, 2011, and landed at the KSC on July 21, 2011, at 5:57 a.m. EDT (09:57 UTC). [28]: III-398 From then until the launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2 on May 30, 2020, the US launched its astronauts aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft. [31] Following each orbiter's final flight, it was processed to make it safe for display.
STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first time that Columbia , the first space-rated Space Shuttle orbiter to be constructed, had flown since STS-9 .
STS-51-I was the 20th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. During the mission, Discovery deployed three communications satellites into orbit. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on August 27, 1985, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base , California , on September 3, 1985.
STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program. It also carried the first African-American astronaut, Guion Bluford.
Launch of STS-51-C as seen from an IMAX camera attached to the Fixed Service Structure. STS-51-C launched from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on January 24, 1985, at 19:50:00 UTC, and was the first of nine shuttle missions in 1985. It was originally scheduled for January 23, 1985, but was delayed because of freezing weather.