Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-G

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.

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Space Shuttle Discovery


Serial OV-103

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Retired

Landing Time 1985-06-24T13:11:00+0000


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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


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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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