STS-6
Space Shuttle Challenger / OV-099
Rockwell International
Crew
Paul J. Weitz
Status: Deceased
7/25/1932 - 10/22/2017
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 5/25/1973
Last Flight: 4/4/1983
Paul Joseph Weitz was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first manned Skylab mission. He was also Commander of the STS-6 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle Challenger flights.
Karol J. Bobko
Status: Retired
12/23/1937 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/4/1983
Last Flight: 10/3/1985
Karol Joseph "Bo" Bobko is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former USAF and NASA astronaut.
Story Musgrave
Status: Retired
8/19/1935 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/4/1983
Last Flight: 11/19/1996
Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker[2] and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees.
Donald H. Peterson
Status: Deceased
10/22/1933 - 5/27/2018
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/4/1983
Last Flight: 4/4/1983
Donald Herod Peterson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Peterson was originally selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, but, when that was canceled, he became a NASA astronaut in September 1969. He was a mission specialist on STS-6 on board Challenger. During the mission Peterson performed a spacewalk to test the new airlock and space suits. He logged 120 hours in space. Peterson retired from NASA in 1984.
Mission
STS-6
Type: Communications
STS-6 was the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It deployed the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite into orbit for NASA, forming an integral part of NASAs in-space 10. It was also the first Space Shuttle mission involving a spacewalk. It was the first mission in which the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) was used.
Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
211 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
Rocket
Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099 – Lockheed Space Operations Company
Family: Space Shuttle
Length: 38.1 m
Diameter: 8.4 m
Launch Mass: 2040 T
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 24400 kg
The Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099 was manufactured by Lockheed Space Operations Company with the first launch on 1983-04-04. Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099 has 9 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 10 launches. Space Shuttle Challenger was the second orbiter of NASA’s space shuttle program to be put into service following Columbia. Its maiden flight, STS-6, started on April 4, 1983. It launched and landed nine times before breaking apart 73 seconds into its tenth mission, STS-51-L, on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members, including a civilian school teacher. It was the first of two shuttles to be destroyed in flight, the other being Columbia in 2003.
Agency
Rockwell International
Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: ROI
Country: USA
