STS-51G

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STS-51G
Organization NASA-Office of Space Flight (United States)
Mission type Human Crew
Launch date June 17, 1985 (1985-06-17)
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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