STS-51G
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| Organization | NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States) |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Human Crew |
| Launch date | June 17, 1985 |
| Launch vehicle | Space Shuttle |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral, United States |
| COSPAR ID | 1985-048A |
| Experiments | Here |
| Alternate Names | STS 18,15823 |
| Additional Information | Here |
| Data Collection | Here |
| Payload Mass Up | 20148.0 kg |
STS 51-G was the fifth Discovery shuttle flight. On board were Daniel Brandenstein, John Creighton, Shannon Lucid, John Fabian, Steven Nagel, Patrick Baudry (from France) and Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud (from Saudi Arabia). Deployed during the mission were the Morelos (Mexico), Arabsat (ASCO), and Telstar (AT&T) satellites. The Spartan 1 spacecraft was deployed and retrieved. Also flown: deployable/retrievable Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy (SPARTAN-1); six Get Away Special canisters; Strategic Defense Initiative experiment called the High Precision Tracking Experiment (HPTE); a materials processing furnace called Automated Directional Solidification Furnace (ADSF); and two French biomedical experiments. The mission duration was 169 hours 38 minutes 52 seconds.
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