STS-51-A
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Crew

Joseph P. Allen
Status: Retired
6/27/1937 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/11/1982
Last Flight: 11/8/1984
Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV, Ph.D. is a former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.
Allen is married to the former Bonnie Jo Darling of Elkhart, Indiana. Their children are David Christopher, born September 1968 and Elizabeth Darling, born May 1972.

Dale Gardner
Status: Deceased
11/8/1948 - 2/19/2014
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/30/1983
Last Flight: 11/8/1984
Dale Allan Gardner was a NASA astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions during the early 1980s.

Frederick "Rick" Hauck
Status: Retired
4/11/1941 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/18/1983
Last Flight: 9/29/1988
Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.

David M. Walker
Status: Deceased
5/20/1944 - 4/23/2001
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/8/1984
Last Flight: 9/7/1995
David Mathieson "Dave" Walker was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.

Anna Lee Fisher
Status: Retired
8/24/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/8/1984
Last Flight: 11/8/1984
Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle) is an American chemist, emergency physician, and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984 she became the first mother in space.[4] Fisher was formerly the oldest active American astronaut.[5] During her career at NASA, she has been involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion project.
Mission
STS-51-A
Type: Communications
STS-51-A was the fourteenth flight of the Space Shuttle program and second flight for the Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission lasted 8 days and deployed a number of 10 satellites.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
217 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Rocket
Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 – United Space Alliance
- Family: Space Shuttle
- Length: 38.1 m
- Diameter: 8.4 m
- Launch Mass: 2040 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 24400 kg
The Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 was manufactured by United Space Alliance with the first launch on 1984-08-30. Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 has 38 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 38 launches. Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the orbiters from NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date.
Agency
Lockheed Space Operations Company – LSOC
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: LSOC
- Country: USA