Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-37
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-37
STS-37 was the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis with the primary obective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The mission featured two spacewalks, the first since 1985.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Serial OV-104
Launch Crew Count 5
Status Retired
Landing Time 1991-04-11T13:55:00+0000
Crew
Steven R. Nagel
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1946-10-27
Deceased 2014-08-21
Status Deceased
Type Government
Kenneth D. Cameron
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1949-11-29
Status Retired
Type Government
Jerome Apt
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1949-04-28
Status Retired
Type Government
Jerry L. Ross
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1948-01-20
Status Retired
Type Government
Linda M. Godwin
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1952-07-02
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
Programs
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.
