Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-B
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-51-B
STS-51-B was the seventeenth flight of the shuttle program and the seventh for Space Shuttle Challenger. It was the second flight for SpaceLab.
Space Shuttle Challenger
Serial OV-099
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Destroyed
Landing Time 1985-05-06T16:11:00+0000
Crew
Robert F. Overmyer
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1936-07-14
Deceased 1996-03-22
Status Deceased
Type Government
Frederick D. Gregory
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1941-01-07
Status Retired
Type Government
Don L. Lind
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1930-05-18
Status Retired
Type Government
Lodewijk van den Berg
Payload Specialist
Nationality American Dutch
Date Of Birth 1932-03-24
Deceased 2022-10-16
Status Deceased
Type Government
Norman E. Thagard
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1943-07-03
Status Retired
Type Government
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang
Payload Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1940-06-16
Status Retired
Type Government
William E. Thornton
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1929-04-14
Deceased 2020-01-14
Status Deceased
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
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.
