Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-G
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-51-G
STS-51-G was the eighteenth flight of the shuttle program and fifth for Space Shuttle Discovery. Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was on board as a payload specialist; he became the first Arab, the first Muslim and first member of a royal family to fly into space. It was the first shuttle flight to fly without an astronaut from the pre-Shuttle era. Its mission was to deploy 3 10 satellites.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 1985-06-24T13:11:00+0000
Crew
Daniel Brandenstein
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1943-01-17
Status Retired
Type Government
John Oliver Creighton
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1943-04-28
Status Retired
Type Government
John M. Fabian
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1939-01-28
Status Retired
Type Government
Patrick Baudry
Payload Specialist
Nationality French
Date Of Birth 1946-03-06
Status Retired
Type Government
Shannon Lucid
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1943-01-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Steven R. Nagel
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1946-10-27
Deceased 2014-08-21
Status Deceased
Type Government
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
Payload Specialist
Nationality Saudi
Date Of Birth 1956-06-27
Status Retired
Type Non-Astronaut Passenger
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.
