STS-61-B was the 23rd NASA Space Shuttle mission, and its second using Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida...
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STS-61-A (also known as Spacelab D-1) was the 22nd mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. It was a scientific Spacelab mission, funded and directed by...
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STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first time that Columbia,...
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STS-61 was NASA's first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December...
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designation with STS 26 and the return to flight in 1988. STS-61 itself was flown in 1993. Other STS-61s include: STS-61-A STS-61-B STS-61-C This disambiguation...
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NASA Astronaut Corps (section B)
– STS-61-B, STS-30 Michael Clifford – STS-53, STS-59, STS-76 Michael Coats – STS-41-D, STS-29, STS-39 Kenneth Cockrell – STS-56, STS-69, STS-80, STS-98...
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List of astronauts by name (section B)
Blaha — STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79/81 Michael J. Bloomfield — STS-86, STS-97, STS-110 Guion Bluford — STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53 Karol...
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STS-82, STS-103, STS-110 Fayetteville: Richard O. Covey — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61 Little Rock: Scott E. Parazynski — STS-66, STS-86, STS-95...
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(turnaround time) when it launched in November 1985 on STS-61-B, only 50 days after its previous mission, STS-51-J in October 1985. Atlantis was then used for...
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Brewster H. Shaw (section STS-9)
Force Base, California. Brewster Shaw told the NASA oral historian for STS-61-B that he installed a padlock on the hatch control because he was “particularly...
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List of space travelers by nationality (section B)
STS-69 (1995), STS-83 (1997), STS-94 (1997), STS-104 (2001) Edward Gibson — Skylab 4 (1973) Robert L. Gibson — STS-41-B (1984), STS-61-C (1985), STS-27...
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1986, STS-61-C) First Dutch citizen in space: Wubbo Ockels (October 30, 1985, STS-61-A) First Swiss astronaut: Claude Nicollier (July 31, 1992, STS-46)...
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94 million miles. She was a mission specialist on STS-61-B (November 26 to December 3, 1985) and STS-30 (May 4–8, 1989). Cleave left JSC in May 1991 to...
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support crewman for STS 41-B, STS 41-C and STS 51-A; spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) during STS 41-B, STS 41-C, STS 41-D, STS 51-A and STS 51-D; Chief of...
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in-orbit footage from shuttle missions STS-41-C, STS-61-B, STS-31, STS-32, STS-34, STS-40, STS-42, STS-46, STS-51 and STS-61. Destiny In Space is presented in...
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miles in 253 orbits of the Earth. O'Connor was pilot on STS-61-B in 1985 and was crew commander on STS-40 in 1991. O'Connor left NASA in August 1991 to become...
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EVA maintenance, and design. Spring served as a mission specialist on STS-61-B which flew November 26, 1985, through December 3, 1985. During that mission...
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would be his only flight, he also accompanied the CFES equipment on STS-51-D, and STS-61-B, accumulating 20 days of experience in space and traveling 8.2 million...
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astronaut trainee who was a backup for astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela on STS-61-B. Peralta was one of three people selected among 400 applicants to the Mexican...
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Neri was a Payload Specialist aboard the STS-61-B Atlantis mission, from (November 26 to December 3, 1985). STS-61B launched at night from Kennedy Space...
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on STS-99 Steven MacLean – mission specialist on STS-115 Hans Schlegel – mission specialist on STS-122 Umberto Guidoni – mission specialist on STS-100...
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rescheduled. The codes were adopted from STS-41-B through STS-51-L (although the highest code used was actually STS-61-C), and the sequential numbers were...
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April 8, 1991, Ross and Apt made the first scheduled EVA since Mission STS-61-B in November 1985. The spacewalk was to test methods of moving crew members...
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in space. STS-61-B (November 26, 1985) 3 Franklin Chang-Diaz April 5, 1950 United States ( Costa Rica) First Costa Rican astronaut STS-61-C (January...
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by STS-41-B. After this mission, Columbia was taken out of service for renovations and did not fly again until STS-61-C in early January 1986. STS-9 sent...
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Shannon Lucid (section STS-51-G)
mission in October 1985, the STS-61-A mission in November 1985, STS-61-B mission in November and December 1985, and the STS-61-C mission in January 1986...
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Janice E. Voss – STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99 Charles D. Walker – STS-41-D, STS-51-D, STS-61-B Mary E. Weber – STS-70, STS-101 George Welch...
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(STS-3) Vance D. Brand (STS-5, STS-41-B, STS-35) Robert F. Overmyer (STS-5, STS-51-B) F. Story Musgrave (STS-6, STS-51-F, STS-33, STS-44, STS-61, STS-80...
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during STS-61-B mission in 1985. "The first big news of the day is that our TPS, the Thermal Protection System has been cleared for entry" said STS-129 Entry...
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Morelos Satellite System (redirect from Morelos-B)
launched by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on 27 November 1985; the mission, STS-61-B, included Mexican-born astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela as a payload specialist...
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