Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-51-B

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.

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Space Shuttle Challenger


Serial OV-099

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 1985-05-06T16:11:00+0000


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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


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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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