STS-5

STS-5

Infobox Space mission
mission_name = STS-5
insignia = Sts-5-patch.png shuttle = Columbia
launch_pad = 39-A
launch = November 11, 1982, 12:19:00 UTC
landing = November 16, 1982, 14:33:26 UTC
duration = 5d/02:14:26
altitude = 341 km
inclination = 28.5°
orbits = 81
distance = 3,397,082 km
crew_photo = Sts-5_crew.jpg
crew_caption = L-R Allen, Brand, Overmyer, Lenoir
previous = STS-4
next = STS-6

STS-5 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched November 11, 1982. This was the fifth space shuttle mission, and was also the fifth mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Crew

Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.
*Vance D. Brand (2) - Commander
*Robert F. Overmyer (1) - Pilot
*Joseph P. Allen (1) - Mission Specialist
*William B. Lenoir (1) - Mission Specialist

Mission parameters

*Mass:
**"Orbiter Liftoff:" 112,088 kg
**"Orbiter Landing:" 91,841 kg
**"Payload:" 14,551 kg
*Perigee: 294 km
*Apogee: 317 km
*Inclination: 28.5°
*Period: 90.5 min

Mission highlights

STS-5, the first operational mission, also carried the largest crew up to that time—four astronauts—and the first two commercial communications satellites to be flown.

The fifth launch of the orbiter "Columbia" took place at 7:19 a.m. EST, Nov. 11, 1982. It was the second on-schedule launch.

The two communications satellites were deployed successfully and subsequently propelled into their operational geosynchronous orbits by booster rockets. Both were Hughes-built HS-376 series satellites—Satellite Business Systems-3 owned by Satellite Business Systems, and Anik C3 owned by Telesat Canada. In addition to the first commercial satellite cargo, the flight carried a West German-sponsored microgravity GAS experiment canister in the payload bay. The crew also conducted three student experiments during the flight.

A planned spacewalk, the first for the Shuttle program, by Lenoir and Allen was postponed by one day after Lenior became ill and then had to be cancelled when the two space suits that were to be used developed problems. [ [http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts122/080210fd4/index.html Mission controllers release revised flight plan] ]

"Columbia" landed on Runway 22, at Edwards AFB, on Nov. 16, 1982, at 6:33 a.m. PST, having traveled 2 million miles in 81 orbits during a mission that lasted 5 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes and 26 seconds. "Columbia" was returned to KSC on Nov. 22. STS-5 was the first Shuttle flight in which the crew did not wear pressure suits for the launch, reentry, and landing portions of the flight, similar in nature to Soviet Voskhod and Soyuz flights prior to the ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission.

Mission insignia

The points of the blue star of the mission patch tell the flight's numerical designation in the Space Transportation System's mission sequence.

ee also

* Space science
* Space shuttle
* Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
* List of space shuttle missions
* List of human spaceflights chronologically

References

External links

* [http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/shuttle/missions/sts-5/mission-sts-5.html STS-5 Shuttle Mission]
* [http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/chron/sts-5.htm STS-5 Mission Chronology]
* [http://www.nss.org/resources/library/shuttlevideos/shuttle05.htm STS-5 Video Highlights]


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