Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-31 (Hubble)
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Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-31 (Hubble)
STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the space shuttle program. Discovery's tenth mission deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 5
Status Retired
Landing Time 1990-04-29T13:49:00+0000
Crew
Loren Shriver
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1944-09-23
Status Retired
Type Government
Charles Bolden
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1946-08-19
Status Retired
Type Government
Bruce McCandless II
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1937-06-08
Deceased 2017-12-21
Status Deceased
Type Government
Kathryn D. Sullivan
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1951-10-03
Status Retired
Type Government
Steven Hawley
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1951-12-12
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.
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