STS-41-G
ERBS during deployment
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| Mission type | Satellite deployment Radar imaging |
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| Operator | NASA |
| COSPAR ID | 1984-108A |
| SATCAT no. | 15353 |
| Mission duration | 8 days, 5 hours, 23 minutes, 33 seconds |
| Distance travelled | 5,293,847 kilometres (3,289,444 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 133 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Challenger |
| Launch mass | 110,120 kilograms (242,780 lb) |
| Landing mass | 91,746 kilograms (202,266 lb) |
| Payload mass | 8,573 kilograms (18,901 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 7 |
| Members |
Robert L. Crippen Jon A. McBride Kathryn D. Sullivan Sally K. Ride David C. Leestma Paul D. Scully-Power Marc Garneau |
| EVAs | 1 |
| EVA duration | 3 hours, 29 minutes |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 5 October 1984, 11:03:00 UTC |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 13 October 1984, 16:26:33 UTC |
| Landing site | Kennedy SLF Runway 33 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee | 351 kilometres (218 mi) |
| Apogee | 391 kilometres (243 mi) |
| Inclination | 57.0 degrees |
| Period | 92.0 min |
| Epoch | 7 October 1984 |
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 Bottom (L to R) Jon A. McBride, Pilot, Sally K. Ride, Kathryn D. Sullivan and David C. Leestma, Mission Specialists. Top (L-R) Paul D. Scully-Power, Payload Specialist; Robert L. Crippen, Commander, and Marc Garneau, Canadian Payload Specialist. The replica of a gold astronaut pin near McBride signifies unity. |
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STS-41-G was the 13th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. Challenger launched on 5 October 1984, and conducted the second shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center on 13 October. It was the first shuttle mission to carry a crew of seven, including the first crew with two women (Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan), the first American EVA involving a woman (Sullivan), the first Australian-born person to journey into space and the first astronaut with a beard (Paul 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. Film footage from the mission (including Sullivan and David Leestma's EVA) appeared in the IMAX movie The Dream is Alive.
On 5 October 1984, Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 7:03 am 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; pilot Jon A. McBride; three mission specialists – David C. Leestma, Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan – and two payload specialists, Paul 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.
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