STS-31 was the 35th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 10th flight of Discovery. The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of...
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Bruce McCandless II (section STS-31)
four hours of MMU flight time. He flew as a mission specialist on STS-41-B and STS-31. Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on February...
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Kathryn D. Sullivan (section STS-31)
her first mission, STS-41-G, Sullivan performed the first extra-vehicular activity (EVA) by an American woman. On her second, STS-31, she helped deploy...
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ill-fated STS-107 mission, which culminated in the Columbia disaster. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was placed in orbit during mission STS-31 on 25 April...
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Steven Hawley (section Discovery 31)
He served as a mission specialist on STS-41D in 1984, STS-61C in 1986, STS-31 in 1990, STS-82 in 1997 and STS-93 in 1999. Hawley was the last member...
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STS-36 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Atlantis carried a classified payload for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) (believed...
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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-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98 Mae Jemison – STS-47 Tamara Jernigan – STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96 Brent Jett – STS-72, STS-81, STS-97...
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— STS-6 (1983), STS-51-D (1985), STS-51-J (1985) Eric A. Boe — STS-126 (2008), STS-133 (2011) Charles Bolden — STS-61-C (1985), STS-31 (1990), STS-45...
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administrative position, later flew on the STS-31 mission. Young was replaced by Loren J. Shriver for STS-31. "STS-61-J". astronautix.com. Archived from the...
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aboard STS-31 in April 1990. The flight also brought instrument upgrades and new solar arrays to the telescope. With its very heavy workload, the STS-61 mission...
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STS-82 was the 22nd flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the 82nd mission of the Space Shuttle program. It was NASA's second mission to service the...
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in orbit: STS-2 (equipment failure), STS-35 (weather), STS-44 (equipment failure), and STS-83 (equipment failure, relaunched as STS-94). STS-300 was the...
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Discovery successfully launched the Hubble on April 24, 1990, as part of the STS-31 mission. At launch, NASA had spent approximately US$4.7 billion in inflation-adjusted...
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Story Musgrave (section STS-6)
missions, STS-31, STS-35, STS-36, STS-38 and STS-41. He was a mission specialist on STS-6 (1983), STS-51-F/Spacelab-2 (1985), STS-33 (1989), STS-44 (1991)...
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mission contained the designator STS-28 throughout. As STS-51-L was designated STS-33, future flights with the STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require...
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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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third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service...
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Section. STS 31 to STS 36 - Beaulieu, Hampshire - Finishing Schools STS 31 - The Rings, Beaulieu, Hampshire - security training for agents STS 31 - The House...
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Canceled Space Shuttle missions (redirect from STS-144)
31 March 2010. "STS-61-J". Encyclopedia Astronautica. 17 November 2007. Archived from the original on 8 January 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2010. "STS-61-N"...
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STS-41 was the 36th Space Shuttle mission and the eleventh mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The four-day mission had a primary objective of launching...
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STS-37, the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a six-day mission with the primary objective...
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STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was planned as the first...
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pilot on STS-61-C (January 12–18, 1986) and STS-31 (April 24–29, 1990), and was the mission commander on STS-45 (March 24 – April 2, 1992), and STS-60 (February...
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dropped. For example, 1990-037A is the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31, which carried the Hubble Space Telescope (1990-037B) into space. This launch...
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24th Special Tactics Squadron (redirect from 24th STS)
special operations ground force". As the Air Force's Tier 1 unit, the 24th STS provides special operations airmen to the Joint Special Operations Command...
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near-ultraviolet. It was launched in 1990 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-31, but its main mirror had been ground incorrectly, resulting in spherical...
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1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was...
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STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission ended on February 1, 2003...
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in a museum. It was replaced in 2009 as part of a Space Shuttle mission (STS-125). In 2010 Herschel Space Observatory captured a new image of the Pillars...
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