Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-37

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.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis


Serial OV-104

Launch Crew Count 5

Status Retired

Landing Time 1991-04-11T13:55:00+0000


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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


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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.

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