Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61

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.

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Space Shuttle Endeavour


Serial OV-105

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Retired

Landing Time 1993-12-13T05:25:00+0000


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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


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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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