Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-34

Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-34

Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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STS-34 (Galileo)

STS-34 was the thirty-first shuttle mission and the fifth for Atlantis. It deployed the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis


Serial OV-104

Launch Crew Count 5

Status Retired

Landing Time 1989-10-23T16:33:00+0000


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Crew

Donald E. Williams

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1942-02-13

Deceased 2016-02-23

Status Deceased

Type Government


Michael J. McCulley

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1943-08-04

Status Retired

Type Government


Ellen S. Baker

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1953-04-27

Status Retired

Type Government


Franklin Chang Díaz

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1950-04-05

Status Retired

Type Government


Shannon Lucid

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1943-01-14

Status Retired

Type Government


Space Shuttle


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


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NASA Large Strategic Science Missions

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.

Space Shuttle

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.

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