STS-41-G
Sign in to saveSTS-41-G (formerly STS-17) was the 13th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. Challenger launched on October 5, 1984, and conducted the second shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center on October 13, 1984. It was the first shuttle mission to carry a crew of seven, including the first crew with two women (Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan), the first American Extravehicular activity (EVA) involving a woman (Sullivan), the first Australian-born person to journey into space as well as the first astronaut with a beard (Paul D. Scully-Power) and
Key facts
- Spaceflight.crew_EVAs
- 1
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-41-G
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-13
- Spaceflight.image
- Earth Radiation Budget Satellite.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- ERBS during deployment
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Satellite deploymentRadar imaging
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 133
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.crew_EVA_duration
- 3 hours, 29 minutes
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC (7:03amEDT)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (12:26:38pmEDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 57°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-51-A
- Follows
- STS-41-D
- Duration
- 710618
- Mass
- 8573
- Orbital period
- 92.0
- Image
- STS-41-G ERBS deployment.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- Commons category
- STS-41-G
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1984-10-05
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Paul Scully-Power
- vessel
- Challenger
- location of landing
- Launch and Landing Facility
- orbits completed
- 133
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1984-10-13
- Commons gallery
- STS-41-G
- orbital inclination
- 57.0
- periapsis
- 351
- apoapsis
- 391
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Spacewalk
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission summary
- Mission insignia
- Wake-up calls
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
STS-41-G (formerly STS-17) was the 13th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. Challenger launched on October 5, 1984, and conducted the second shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center on October 13, 1984. It was the first shuttle mission to carry a crew of seven, including the first crew with two women (Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan), the first American Extravehicular activity (EVA) involving a woman (Sullivan), the first Australian-born person to journey into space as well as the first astronaut with a beard (Paul D. Scully-Power) and the first Canadian astronaut (Marc Garneau).
STS-41-G was the third shuttle mission to carry an IMAX camera on board to document the flight. Launch and in-orbit footage from the mission (including Sullivan and Leestma's EVA) appeared in the 1985 IMAX movie The Dream is Alive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-41-G” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.