STS-41-B

Vance D. Brand

• Birthday: 05/09/1931
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/15/1975
• Last Flight: 12/02/1990

Vance DeVoe Brand is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He ...

Robert L. Gibson

• Birthday: 10/30/1946
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1984
• Last Flight: 06/27/1995

Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a r...

Bruce McCandless II

• Birthday: 06/08/1937
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1984
• Last Flight: 04/24/1990

Bruce McCandless II was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first ...

Robert L. Stewart

• Birthday: 05/10/1942
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1984
• Last Flight: 10/03/1985

Robert Lee Stewart is a retired brigadier general of the United States Army and a former NASA astronaut.

Ronald McNair

• Birthday: 10/21/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1984
• Last Flight: 01/28/1986

Ronald Erwin McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger o...

Mission

STS-41-B

• Type: Communications
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-41-B was the tenth Space Shuttle mission and the fourth of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It deployed 2 communication satellites and inluded the first untethered spacewalk. It was also the first shuttle mission to land at Kennedy Space Center.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 208 rockets, including 207 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 266 rocket launches.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Rocket

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

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