STS-51-A

Frederick "Rick" Hauck

• Birthday: 04/11/1941
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/18/1983
• Last Flight: 09/29/1988

Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA ast...

David M. Walker

• Birthday: 05/20/1944
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/08/1984
• Last Flight: 09/07/1995

David Mathieson "Dave" Walker was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, and a former NA...

Anna Lee Fisher

• Birthday: 08/24/1949
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/08/1984
• Last Flight: 11/08/1984

Anna Lee Fisher (née Tingle) is an American chemist, emergency physician, and a former NASA astronaut. Formerly married to f...

Dale Gardner

• Birthday: 11/08/1948
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/30/1983
• Last Flight: 11/08/1984

Dale Allan Gardner was a NASA astronaut who flew two Space Shuttle missions during the early 1980s.

Joseph P. Allen

• Birthday: 06/27/1937
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/11/1982
• Last Flight: 11/08/1984

Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV, Ph.D. is a former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in je...

Mission

STS-51-A

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

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.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 199 rockets, including 198 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 257 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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