Space Shuttle missions
33 entries in the Space Shuttle Missions compendium.
Approach and Landing TestsSixteen taxi and flight trials of the prototype Enterprise.Shuttle–Mir programJoint US-Russian program paving way for the International Space Station.STS-1First orbital flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program.STS-2Second shuttle flight; first reuse of an orbiter and first robotic arm test.STS-4Final shuttle test flight with a classified military payload, though not the first.STS-5First operational shuttle mission deploying commercial satellites.STS-6First flight of Challenger and first Shuttle spacewalk.STS-7Seventh Shuttle mission; first American woman in space.STS-8First night launch and landing of the Space Shuttle program.STS-9First Spacelab mission; first non-U.S. citizen on Shuttle.STS-26First Space Shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster.STS-27Classified DoD mission with severe tile damage that nearly proved fatal.STS-28Classified DoD shuttle mission carrying an SDS-2 relay satellite.STS-29Third shuttle mission after Challenger, deployed final TDRS satSTS-30Fourth post-Challenger shuttle mission; deployed Magellan to Venus.STS-31Deployed the Hubble Space Telescope into low Earth orbit.STS-32First shuttle mission of the 1990s, retrieved LDEF after 4½-year delay.STS-33Classified DoD shuttle mission deploying a secret ELINT satellite.STS-34Deployed Galileo probe; first shuttle with two women since Challenger.STS-35Tenth flight of Columbia, devoted to astronomical observations with ASTRO-1.STS-36Classified DoD shuttle mission deploying a reconnaissance satellite.STS-37Deployed the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory; first U.S. spacewalks since 1985.STS-38Classified DoD shuttle mission with secret satellite deployment.STS-39First unclassified DoD-dedicated Space Shuttle mission.STS-40First spaceflight with three women; first biology-only Spacelab mission.STS-41Deployed Ulysses to study the Sun's poles.STS-41-BFirst untethered spacewalk and deployment of two communications satellites.STS-41-CFirst direct ascent; repaired Solar Max satellite.STS-41-DMaiden flight of Discovery; first Shuttle launch abort.STS-41-GFirst shuttle crew of seven, including two women.STS-42International microgravity research mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.STS-43Ninth Atlantis flight deployed TDRS-5 and tested space station cooling.STS-44U.S. Department of Defense shuttle mission deploying DSP-16 satellite.
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