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STS-1: Columbia
April 12-14, 1981 |
First shuttle flight.
Crew: Young, Crippen. |
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STS-2: Columbia
Nov. 12-14, 1981 |
First tests of robot arm.
Crew: Engle, Truly. |
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STS-3: Columbia
March 22-30, 1982. |
Mexico.
Crew: Lousma, Fullerton. |
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STS-4: Columbia
June 27-July 4, 1982. |
First classified payload.
Crew: Mattingly, Hartsfield. |
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STS-5: Columbia
Nov. 11-16, 1982. |
First commercial satellite deployment.
Crew: Brand, Overmyer, Allen, Lenoir. |
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STS-6: Challenger
April 4-9, 1983. |
First shuttle spacewalk.
Crew: Weitz, Bobko, Peterson, Musgrave. |
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STS-7: Challenger
June 18-24, 1983. |
First U.S. woman astronaut (Ride).
Crew: Crippen, Hauck, Ride, Fabian, Thagard. |
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STS-8: Challenger
Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1983. |
First night launch and landing, first black astronaut (Bluford).
Crew: Truly, Brandenstein, Bluford, Gardner, Thornton. |
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STS-9: Columbia
Nov. 28-Dec. 8, 1983. |
First Spacelab research mission, first European Space Agency astronaut (Merbold).
Crew: Young, Shaw, Parker, Garriott, Lichtenberg, Merbold. |
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41-B: Challenger
Feb. 3-11, 1984. |
First untethered spacewalk, first Florida landing.
Crew: Brand, Gibson, McCandless, Steward, McNair. |
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41-C (STS-13): Challenger
April 6-13, 1984. |
First in-orbit satellite repair.
Crew: Crippen, Scobee, Hart, van Hoften, Nelson. |
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41-D (STS-14): Discovery
Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1984. |
Three satellites deployed.
Crew: Hartsfield, Coats, Mullane, Hawley, Resnik, Walker. |
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41-G (STS-17): Challenger
Oct. 5-13, 1984. |
First U.S. woman to walk in space (Sullivan).
Crew: Crippen, McBride, Leestma, Ride, Sullivan, Scully-Power, Garneau. |
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51-A: Discovery
Nov. 8-16, 1984. |
First retrieval of two satellites for return to Earth.
Crew: Hauck, Walker, Allen, Fisher, Gardner. |
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51-C: Discovery
Jan. 24-27, 1985 |
First classified Pentagon mission.
Crew: Mattingly, Shriver, Onizuka, Buchli, Payton. |
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51-D: Discovery
April 12-19, 1985. |
First sitting senator to fly in space (Garn).
Crew: Bobko, Williams, Hoffman, Griggs, Seddon, Walker, Garn. |
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51-B: Challenger
April 29-May 6, 1985 |
Spacelab research mission.
Crew: Overmyer, Gregory, Lind, Thagard, Thornton, Wang, van den Berg. |
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51-G: Discovery
June 17-24, 1985. |
Three communications satellites deployed.
Crew: Brandenstein, Creighton, Fabian, Nagel, Lucid, Baudry, Al-Sa’ud. |
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51-F: Challenger
July 29-Aug. 6, 1985. |
Premature shutdown of one engine required change in orbit.
Crew: Fullerton, Bridges, Musgrave, England, Henize, Acton, Bartoe. |
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51-I: Discovery
Aug. 27-Sept. 3, 1985 |
Satellite retrieved, repaired and redeployed in orbit.
Crew: Engle, Covey, van Hoften, Fisher, Lounge. |
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51-J: Atlantis
Oct. 3-7, 1985. |
Classified Pentagon mission.
Crew: Bobko, Grabe, Hilmers, Stewart, Pailes. |
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61-A: Challenger
Oct. 30-Nov. 6, 1985. |
Spacelab research mission.
Crew: Hartsfield, Nagel, Buchli, Bluford, Dunbar, Furrer, Ockels, Messerschmid. |
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61-B: Atlantis
Nov. 26-Dec. 3, 1985. |
Three satellites deployed, space construction techniques tested.
Crew: Shaw, O’Conner, Spring, Cleave, Ross, Walker, Neri Vela. |
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61-C: Columbia
Jan. 12-18, 1986. |
First U.S. House member in space (Nelson).
Crew: Gibson, Bolden, Nelson, Hawley, Chang-Diaz, Cenker, Nelson. |
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51-L: Challenger
Jan. 28, 1986. |
Shuttle explodes during ascent, killing all aboard, including school teacher McAuliffe.
Crew: Scobee, Smith, Onizuka, Resnik, McNair, Jarvis, McAuliffe. |
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STS-26: Discovery
Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 1988. |
Tracking satellite deployed.
Crew: Hauck, Covey, Lounge, Nelson, Hilmers. |
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STS-27: Atlantis
Dec. 2-6, 1988. |
Classified Pentagon mission.
Crew: Gibson, Gardner, Mullane, Ross, Shepherd. |
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STS-29: Discovery
March 13-18, 1989. |
Tracking satellite deployed.
Crew: Coats, Blaha, Buchli, Springer, Bagian. |
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STS-30: Atlantis
May 4-8, 1989. |
Magellan probe to Venus.
Crew: Walker, Grabe, Thagard, Cleave, Lee. |
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STS-28: Columbia
Aug. 8-13, 1989. |
Classified Pentagon mission.
Crew: Shaw, Richards, Leestma, Adamson, Brown. |
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STS-34: Atlantis
Oct. 18-23, 1989. |
Galileo probe to Jupiter.
Crew: Williams, McCulley, Lucid, Baker, Chang-Diaz. |
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STS-33: Discovery
Nov. 22-27, 1989. |
Classified Pentagon mission.
Crew: Gregory, Blaha, Musgrave, Thornton, Carter. |
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STS-32: Columbia
Jan. 9-20, 1990. |
One satellite deployed, another retrieved.
Crew: Brandenstein, Wetherbee, Dunbar, Low, Ivins |
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STS-36: Atlantis
Feb. 28-March 4, 1990. |
Classifed Pentagon mission.
Crew: Creighton, Casper, Hilmers, Mullane, Thuot. |
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STS-31: Discovery
April 24-29, 1990. |
Hubble Space Telescope deployed.
Crew: Shriver, Bolden, Hawley, McCandless, Sullivan. |
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STS-41: Discovery
Oct. 6-10, 1990. |
Ulysses probe to study sun.
Crew: Richards, Cabana, Melnick, Shepherd, Akers. |
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STS-38: Atlantis
Nov. 15-20, 1990 |
Classified Pentagon mission.
Crew: Covey, Culbertson, Springer, Meade, Gemar. |
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STS-35: Columbia
Dec. 2-10, 1990. |
Ultraviolet and X-ray observations from cargo bay.
Crew: Brand, Gardner, Hoffman, Lounge, Parker, Durrance, Parise. |
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STS-37: Atlantis
April 5-11, 1991. |
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory deployed.
Crew: Nagel, Cameron, Ross, Apt, Godwin. |
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STS-39: Discovery
April 28-May 6, 1991. |
Pentagon experiments conducted.
Crew: Coats, Hammond, Harbaugh, McMonagle, Bluford, Veach, Hieb. |
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STS-40: Columbia
June 5-14, 1991 |
Spacelab life sciences research.
Crew: O’Conner, Gutierrez, Seddon, Bagian, Jernigan, Gaffney, Hughes-Fulford. |
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STS-43: Atlantis
Aug. 2-11, 1991. |
Tracking satellite deployed.
Crew: Blaha, Baker, Lucid, Low, Adamson. |
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STS-48: Discovery
Sept. 12-18, 1991. |
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite deployed.
Crew: Creighton, Reightler, Buchli, Brown, Gemar. |
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STS-44: Atlantis
Nov. 24-Dec. 1, 1991. |
Pentagon experiments conducted.
Crew: Gregory, Henricks, Musgrave, Runco, Voss, Hennen. |
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STS-42: Discovery
Jan. 22-30, 1992. |
Microgravity research.
Crew: Grabe, Oswald, Hilmers, Thagard, Readdy, Merbold, Bondar. |
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STS-45: Atlantis
March 24-April 2, 1992. |
Atmospheric research.
Crew: Bolden, Duffy, Sullivan, Leestma, Foale, Frimout, Lichtenberg. |
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STS-49: Endeavour
May 7-16, 1992 |
First three-person spacewalk to capture stranded satellite.
Crew: Brandenstein, Chilton, Thuot, Thornton, Hieb, Akers, Melnick. |
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STS-50: Columbia
June 25-July 9, 1992. |
First extended-duration mission.
Crew: Richards, Bowersox, Dunbar, Baker, Meade, DeLucas, Trinh. |
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STS-46: Atlantis
July 31-Aug. 8, 1992. |
Tethered satellite deployed.
Crew: Shriver, Allen, Hoffman, Chang-Diaz, Nicollier, Ivins, Malerbo. |
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STS-47: Endeavour
Sept. 12-20, 1992. |
First black woman astronaut (Jemison), first married couple in space (Lee and Davis).
Crew: Gibson, Brown, Lee, Apt, Davis, Jemison, Mohri. |
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STS-52: Columbia
Oct. 22-Nov. 1, 1992 |
Research flight, including deployment of Laser Geodynamic Satellite 2.
Crew: Wetherbee, Baker, Shepherd, Jernigan, Veach, MacLean. |
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STS-53: Discovery
Dec. 2-9, 1992. |
Pentagon experiments conducted.
Crew: Walker, Cabana, Bluford, Voss, Clifford. |
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STS-54: Endeavour
Jan. 13-19, 1993. |
Tracking satellite deployed.
Crew: Casper, McMonagle, Runco, Harbaugh, Helms. |
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STS-56: Discovery
April 8-17, 1993 |
Atmospheric research.
Crew: Cameron, Oswald, Foale, Cockrell, Ochoa. |
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STS-55: Columbia
April 26-May 6, 1993. |
Spacelab research.
Crew: Nagel, Henricks, Ross, Precourt, Harris, Walter, Schlegel. |
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STS-57: Endeavour
June 21-July 1, 1993. |
irst Spacehab research mission.
Crew: Grabe, Duffy, Low, Sherlock, Wisoff, Voss. |
