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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
ERBS during deployment
NamesSpace Transportation System-13
Mission typeSatellite deployment
Radar imaging
OperatorNASA
COSPAR ID1984-108A
SATCAT no.15353
Mission duration8 days, 5 hours, 23 minutes, 33 seconds (achieved)
Distance travelled5,293,847 km (3,289,444 mi)
Orbits completed133
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSpace Shuttle Challenger
Launch mass110,120 kg (242,770 lb)
Landing mass91,746 kg (202,265 lb)
Payload mass8,573 kg (18,900 lb)
Crew
Crew size7
Members
EVAs1
EVA duration3 hours, 29 minutes
Start of mission
Launch dateOctober 5, 1984, 11:03:00 UTC
RocketSpace Shuttle Challenger
Launch siteKennedy Space Center, LC-39A
ContractorRockwell International
End of mission
Landing dateOctober 13 1984, 16:26:33 UTC
Landing siteKennedy Space Center,
SLF Runway 33
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit[1]
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Perigee altitude351 km (218 mi)
Apogee altitude391 km (243 mi)
Inclination57.00°
Period92.00 minutes
Instruments
  • Getaway Special (GAS) canisters
  • Large Format Camera (LFC)
  • Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-B)

STS-41-G mission patch

Top: Paul D. Scully-Power, Robert L. Crippen, Marc Garneau
Bottom: Jon A. McBride, Sally K. Ride, Kathryn D. Sullivan, David C. Leestma. The replica of a gold astronaut pin near McBride signifies Unity.
Space Shuttle program
 STS-41-D (12)
STS-51-A (14) 
 

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.


Crew


Position Astronaut
Commander Robert L. Crippen
Fourth and last spaceflight
Pilot Jon A. McBride
Only spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1 Kathryn D. Sullivan
First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2 Sally K. Ride
Second and last spaceflight
Mission Specialist 3 David C. Leestma
First spaceflight
Payload Specialist 1 / Paul D. Scully-Power
Only spaceflight
Payload Specialist 2 Marc Garneau, CSA
First spaceflight

Backup crew


Position Astronaut
Payload Specialist 1 Robert E. Stevenson
First spaceflight
Payload Specialist 2 Robert Thirsk, CSA
First spaceflight

Spacewalk



Crew seat assignments


Seat[2] Launch Landing
Seats 1–4 are on the Flight Deck. Seats 5–7 are on the Middeck.
S1 Crippen Crippen
S2 McBride McBride
S3 Sullivan Leestma
S4 Ride Ride
S5 Leestma Sullivan
S6 Scully-Power Scully-Power
S7 Garneau Garneau

Mission summary


SIR-B antenna deployment
SIR-B antenna deployment
Sullivan during the EVA
Sullivan during the EVA
Sample image taken using the SIR-B over Canada.
Sample image taken using the SIR-B over Canada.

On October 5, 1984, Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 7:03:00 a.m. EDT, marking the start of the STS-41-G mission. On board were seven crew members – the largest flight crew ever to fly on a single spacecraft at that time. They included commander Robert L. Crippen, making his fourth Shuttle flight and second in six months (Crippen became the first American astronaut to complete two space missions in the same calendar year); pilot Jon A. McBride; three mission specialists – David C. Leestma, Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan – and two payload specialists, Paul D. Scully-Power and Marc Garneau, the first Canadian citizen to serve as a Shuttle crew member, as well as the first Canadian in space. The mission also marked the first time two female astronauts had flown together.

Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space when she and Leestma performed a 3-hour Extravehicular activity (EVA) on October 11, 1984, demonstrating the Orbital Refueling System (ORS) and proving the feasibility of refueling satellites in orbit.

Nine hours after liftoff, the 2,307 kg (5,086 lb) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) was deployed from the payload bay by the Canadarm robot arm, and its on-board thrusters boosted it into orbit 560 km (350 mi) above the Earth. ERBS was the first of three planned satellites designed to measure the amount of energy received from the Sun and reradiated into space. It also studied the seasonal movement of energy from the tropics to the polar regions.

Another major mission activity was the operation of the Shuttle Imaging Radar-B (SIR-B). The SIR-B was part of the OSTA-3 experiment package in the payload bay, which also included the Large Format Camera (LFC) to photograph the Earth, another camera called MAPS which measured air pollution, and a feature identification and location experiment called FILE, which consisted of two TV cameras and two 70 mm (2.8 in) still cameras.

The SIR-B was an improved version of a similar device flown on the OSTA-1 package during STS-2. It had an eight-panel antenna array measuring 11 × 2 m (36.1 × 6.6 ft). It operated throughout the flight, but problems were encountered with Challenger's Ku-band antenna, and therefore much of the data had to be recorded on board the orbiter rather than transmitted to Earth in real-time as was originally planned.

Payload Specialist Scully-Power, an employee of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), performed a series of oceanography observations during the mission. Garneau conducted a series of experiments sponsored by the Canadian government, called CANEX, which were related to medical, atmospheric, climatic, materials and robotic science. A number of Getaway Special (GAS) canisters, covering a wide variety of materials testing and physics experiments, were also flown.

A claim was later made that the Soviet Terra-3 laser testing center was used to track Challenger with a low-power laser on October 10, 1984. This supposedly caused the malfunction of on-board equipment and the temporary blinding of the crew, leading to a U.S. diplomatic protest.[3] However, this story has been comprehensively denied by the crew members.[4] In 2022, former Soviet Minister of Industry informed the Russian press that the Soviets had used a laser locater to lock onto the shuttle and hold the lock until it was 800 km from the test site.[5]

During the 8 days, 5 hours, 23 minutes, and 33 seconds mission, Challenger traveled 5,293,847 km (3,289,444 mi) and completed 133 orbits. It landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at Kennedy Space Center – becoming the second shuttle mission to land there – on October 13, 1984, at 12:26 p.m. EDT.[6]

The STS-41-G mission was later described in detail in the book Oceans to Orbit: The Story of Australia's First Man in Space, Paul Scully-Power by space historian Colin Burgess.


Mission insignia


The thirteen complete stars in the blue field of the U.S. flag of the mission insignia symbolize the flight's numerical designation in the Space Transportation System's mission sequence and being essentially the 13th undertaken flight, by 'obscuring' the remaining stars. (The 17 stars in the black field were indicative of the flight's original designation as STS-17.) Central, as if it is launching, is an astronaut insignia in gold, which was presented to each astronaut since Project Mercury, after completing their first spaceflight, as a reference to the mostly rookie crew. Gender symbols are placed next to each astronaut's name (the male symbol was 'buffed up' as to make it feasible to visualize on the patch), and a Canadian flag icon is placed next to Garneau's name.


Wake-up calls


NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Project Gemini, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen, often by the astronauts' families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.[7]

Flight Day Song Artist/Composer
Day 2 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Irene Cara
Day 3 "Theme From Rocky" Bill Conti

See also



References


  1. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  2. "STS-41G". Spacefacts. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  3. Lieutenant Colonel Boris Kononenko (June 1996). "Federation of American Scientists – "Silent Space Is Being Monitored"". Retrieved December 11, 2006.
  4. Paolo Baldo (2009). "Intervista esclusiva all'astronauta Jon McBride" (in Italian). Retrieved February 15, 2015.
  5. "Cold War Weapons: Lasters - RT Documentary". Russia Today. October 24, 2022.
  6. "41-G (13)". NASA. Retrieved February 13, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. Fries, Colin (June 25, 2007). "Chronology of Wakeup Calls" (PDF). NASA. Retrieved August 13, 2007. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography





На других языках


- [en] STS-41-G

[es] STS-41-G

STS 41-G fue la misión número 13 del programa STS y el sexto vuelo del transbordador Challenger. La misión fue la primera de los transbordadores en llevar a siete miembros al espacio, además fue también la primera en llevar una cámara IMAX para documentar el vuelo y fue la segunda misión en aterrizar en el Centro Espacial Kennedy.

[ru] STS-41G

STS-41G — космический полёт МТКК «Челленджер» по программе «Спейс Шаттл». 13-й полет программы и 6-й полет Челенджера. Запуск состоялся 5 октября 1984, приземление в космическом центре Кеннеди — 13-го октября. Первый полет с семью членами экипажа и первый с двумя женщинами в экипаже.



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