STS-30
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Closeup of the Magellan/IUS stack.
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| Mission type | Spacecraft deployment | ||||
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| Operator | NASA | ||||
| COSPAR ID | 1989-033A | ||||
| SATCAT № | 19968 | ||||
| Mission duration | 4 days, 56 minutes, 28 seconds | ||||
| Distance travelled | 2,377,800 kilometres (1,477,500 mi) | ||||
| Orbits completed | 65 | ||||
| Spacecraft properties | |||||
| Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis | ||||
| Launch mass | 118,441 kilograms (261,118 lb) | ||||
| Landing mass | 87,296 kilograms (192,455 lb) | ||||
| Payload mass | 20,833 kilograms (45,929 lb) | ||||
| Crew | |||||
| Crew size | 5 | ||||
| Members |
David M. Walker Ronald J. Grabe Mark C. Lee Norman E. Thagard Mary L. Cleave |
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| Start of mission | |||||
| Launch date | 4 May 1989, 18:46:59 UTC | ||||
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39B | ||||
| End of mission | |||||
| Landing date | 8 May 1989, 19:43:27 UTC | ||||
| Landing site | Edwards Runway 22 | ||||
| Orbital parameters | |||||
| Reference system | Geocentric | ||||
| Regime | Low Earth | ||||
| Perigee | 361 kilometres (224 mi) | ||||
| Apogee | 366 kilometres (227 mi) | ||||
| Inclination | 28.8 degrees | ||||
| Period | 91.8 min | ||||
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Left to right: Grabe, Walker, Thagard, Cleave, Lee
STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. It was the 4th 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 4 May 1989, and landed four days later on 8 May. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit.
Atlantis spent three months in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF-2) after returning to the Kennedy Space Center at the end of STS-27. During this period technicians got to work removing and replacing all of the damaged Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles that Atlantis sustained during her prior flight. They also took detailed inspections of the shuttle while simultaneously preparing Atlantis for STS-30. The shuttle was rolled over to the Vehicle Assembly Building and mated with ET-29 and an SRB set on 11 March. Eleven days later on 22 March, Atlantis was rolled out to launch pad 39B.
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Pad B, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 14:46 EDT on 4 May 1989. The primary payload, the Magellan spacecraft with its attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), was successfully deployed later that day.Magellan was the first American planetary mission in 11 years.
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