Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-61
STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on 2 December 1993 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission restored the spaceborne observatory's vision, marred by spherical aberration, with the installation of a new main camera and a corrective optics package. This correction occurred more than three and a half years after the Hubble was launched aboard STS-31 in April 1990. The flight also brought instrument upgrades and new solar arrays to the telescope.
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Serial OV-105
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 1993-12-13T05:25:00+0000
Crew
Richard O. Covey
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1946-08-01
Status Retired
Type Government
Ken Bowersox
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1956-11-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Claude Nicollier
Mission Specialist
Nationality Swiss
Date Of Birth 1944-09-02
Status Retired
Type Government
Jeffrey Hoffman
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1944-11-02
Status Retired
Type Government
Kathryn C. Thornton
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1952-08-17
Status Retired
Type Government
Story Musgrave
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1935-08-19
Status Retired
Type Government
Thomas Akers
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1951-05-20
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
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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