STS-30
Sign in to saveSTS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the fourth shuttle launch since the Challenger disaster and the first shuttle mission since the disaster to have a female astronaut on board. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on May 4, 1989, and landed four days later on May 8, 1989. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-30
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-30STS-30R
- Spaceflight.image
- Atlantis and Magellan (3).jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Magellan and its IUS in the payload bay of Atlantis
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Magellan spacecraft deployment
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 65
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 5
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (2:46:59pmEDT)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39B
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (12:43:26pmPDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Edwards, Runway22
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 28.45°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 91.80 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-28
- Follows
- STS-29
- Duration
- 348987
- Mass
- 20833
- Orbital period
- 91.8
- Image
- Magellan-IUS stack (close).jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- Commons category
- STS-30
- orbital inclination
- 28.8
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1989-05-04
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Mary L. Cleave
- vessel
- Atlantis
- location of landing
- Edwards Air Force Base
- orbits completed
- 65
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1989-05-08
- Commons gallery
- STS-30
- periapsis
- 361
- apoapsis
- 366
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Shuttle processing
- Mission summary
- Payload and experiments
- Wake-up calls
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the fourth shuttle launch since the Challenger disaster and the first shuttle mission since the disaster to have a female astronaut on board. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on May 4, 1989, and landed four days later on May 8, 1989. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.
The mission was officially designated STS-30R as the original STS-30 designator belonged to STS-61-A, the 22nd Space Shuttle mission. Official documentation for that mission contained the designator STS-30 throughout. As STS-51-L was designated STS-33, future flights with the STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require the R in their documentation to avoid conflicts in tracking data from one mission to another.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-30” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.