STS-3

Name: Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-3
Start: 1982-03-22T16:00:00+00:00
End: 1982-03-22T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39A

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102

Rockwell International

Launch Status

Success

Mon • Mar 22nd, 1982
4:00 PM UTC

Crew

Jack R. Lousma

Status: Retired
2/29/1936 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 7/28/1973
Last Flight: 3/22/1982

Jack Robert Lousma is an American aeronautical engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former naval aviator, NASA astronaut, and politician. He was a member of the second manned crew on the Skylab space station in 1973. In 1982, he commanded STS-3, the third Space Shuttle mission.

C. Gordon Fullerton

Status: Deceased
10/11/1936 - 8/21/2013
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 3/22/1982
Last Flight: 7/29/1985

Charles Gordon Fullerton was a United States Air Force colonel, a USAF and NASA astronaut, and a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California.[1] His assignments included a variety of flight research and support activities piloting NASA's B-52 launch aircraft, the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), and other multi-engine and high performance aircraft. Fullerton, who logged more than 380 hours in space flight, was a NASA astronaut from September 1969 until November 1986 when he joined the research pilot office at Dryden. In July 1988, he completed a 30-year career with the U.S. Air Force and retired as a colonel. He continued in his position of NASA research pilot as a civilian. Fullerton and his wife and their two children lived in Lancaster, California.

Mission

STS-3

Type: Test Flight

STS-3 was the third flight of the Space Shuttle program. It flew in orbit for 8 days. This mission involved extensive orbital endurance testing of Columbia and also included multiple scientific experiments.