Cleave

Grabe

Lee

Thagard

Walker Dave

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STS-30 Credit - NASA

4 May 1989 18:43 GMT. Landing Date: 1989-05-08 19:40:43. Flight Time: 4.04 days. Flight Up: STS-30. Flight Back: STS-30. Call Sign: Atlantis. Crew: Cleave, Grabe, Lee, Thagard, Walker Dave. Program: STS.

On the lighter side: Better dead than look bad - the astronaut credo. Manned five crew. Deployed Magellan Venus probe. Payloads: Deploy IUS with Magellan spacecraft. Fluids Experiment Apparatus (FEA). Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE), Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment.

Orbits of Earth: 64. Distance traveled: 2,706,911 km. Orbiter Liftoff Mass: 118,441 kg. Orbiter Mass at Landing: 87,296 kg. Payload to Orbit: 20,833 kg. Payload Returned: 3,493 kg. Landed at: Concrete runway 22 at Edwards AFB, California. Landing Speed: 363 kph. Touchdown miss distance: 421 m. Landing Rollout: 3,137 m.

Mission Name: STS-30 (29)
Atlantis (4)
Pad 39-B (10)
29th Shuttle mission
4th Flight OV-104

Crew:
David M. Walker (2), Commander
Ronald J. Grabe (2), Pilot
Norman E. Thagard (3), Mission Specialist 1
Mary L. Cleave (2), Mission Specialist 2
Mark C. Lee (1), Mission Specialist 3

Milestones:
OPF - Dec. 14,1988
VAB - March 11,1989
PAD - March 22, 1989

Payload:
MAGELLAN
Mission Objectives:

STS-30 Credit- www.spacefacts.de

Launch:
May 4, 1989,2:48:59 p.m. EDT. Launch April 28 scrubbed at T-31 seconds due to problem with liquid hydrogen recirculation pump on number one main engine and vapor leak in four-inch liquid hydrogen recirculation line between orbiter and external tank. Repairs made and launch reset for May 4. Liftoff delayed until last five minutes of 64-minute window opening at 1:48 a.m.. EDT due to cloud cover and high winds at KSC Shuttle runway, violating return- to-launch site limits. Launch Weight: 261,118 lbs.
Orbit:
Altitude: 184nm
Inclination: 28.8 degrees
Orbits: 65
Duration: 4 days, 0 hours, 56 minutes, 28 seconds.
Distance: 1,681,997 miles

Hardware:
SRB: BI-027
SRM: 360Q/H004
ET : 29/LWT-22
MLP : 1
SSME-1: SN-2027
SSME-2: SN-2030
SSME-3: SN-2029

Landing:
May 8, 1989, 12:43:27 p.m. PDT, Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Rollout distance: 10,295 feet. Rollout time: 64 seconds. Orbiter returned to KSC May 15,1989. Landing Weight: 192,459 lbs.

Mission Highlights:
Primary payload, Magellan/Venus radar mapper spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), deployed six hours, 14 minutes into Flight. IUS first and second stage fired as planned, boosting Magellan spacecraft on proper trajectory for 15-month journey to Venus. Secondary payloads: Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE), microgravity research with Fluids Experiment Apparatus (FEA), and Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment.
One of five General Purpose Computers (GPC) failed and had to be replaced with a sixth onboard hardware spare. First time a GPC was switched on orbit.

• 1989 May 4 - STS-30  Crew: Cleave, Grabe, Lee, Thagard, Walker Dave. Spacecraft: Atlantis. Payload: Atlantis F04 / Magellan [IUS]. Mass: 20,833 kg (45,928 lb). Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 4.04 days. Perigee: 361 km (224 mi). Apogee: 366 km (227 mi). Inclination: 28.90 deg. Period: 91.80 min.

  Manned five crew. Deployed Magellan Venus probe. Payloads: Deploy IUS with Magellan spacecraft. Fluids Experiment Apparatus (FEA). Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE), Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment.

• 1989 May 8 - Landing of STS-30 

  STS-30 landed at 19:40 GMT.