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STS-34 was the thirty-first shuttle mission and the fifth for Atlantis. It deployed the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe.
Serial OV-104
Launch Crew Count 5
Status Retired
Landing Time 1989-10-23T16:33:00+0000
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1942-02-13
Deceased 2016-02-23
Status Deceased
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1943-08-04
Status Retired
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1953-04-27
Status Retired
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1950-04-05
Status Retired
Type Government
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1943-01-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Height 56.10 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 28200 kN
Diameter 8.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 27500 kg
Liftoff Mass 2030 Tonnes
Launch Success 133
Consecutive Success 22
Maiden Flight 1981-04-12
Launch Failures 2
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science divisions.