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Blaha Carter Gregory Musgrave Thornton

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STS-33 Credit - NASA Media Gallery

23 November 1989 00:28 GMT. Landing Date: 1989-11-28 00:35:37. Flight Time: 5.00 days. Flight Up: STS-33. Flight Back: STS-33. Call Sign: Discovery. Crew: Blaha, Carter, Gregory, Musgrave, Thornton. Program: STS. Manned five crew. Deployed a classified payload. Orbits of Earth: 78. Distance traveled: 3,218,687 km. Landed at: Concrete runway 04 at Edwards Air Force Base, Cali. Landing Speed: 368 kph. Touchdown miss distance: 570.00 m. Landing Rollout: 2,366.00 m. Payloads: DoD Mission - third space shuttle night launch.

NASA Official Mission Narrative

Mission Name: STS-33 (32)
DISCOVERY (9)
Pad 39-B (13)
32nd Shuttle mission
9th Flight OV-103
3rd Night Launch (1st since return to flight)

Crew:
Frederick D. Gregory (2), Commander
John E. Blaha (2), Pilot
F. Story Musgrave (3), Mission Specialist 1
Manley L Carter, Jr.(1), Mission Specialist 2
Kathryn C. Thornton (1), Mission Specialist 3

Milestones:
OPF - Aug, 20,1989
VAB - Oct. 5. 1989
PAD - Oct. 27, 1989

Payload:
DoD(5)
Mission Objectives:

Launch:
November 22, 1989,7:23:30 p.m. EST. Launch set for Nov. 20 rescheduled to allow changeout of suspect integrated electronics assemblies on twin solid rocket boosters. Launch Weight: Classified.
Orbit:
Altitude: 302
Inclination: 28.45 degrees
Orbits: 79
Duration: 5 days, 0 hours, 6 minutes, 49 seconds.
Distance: 2,100,000 miles

Hardware:
SRB: BI-034
SRM: 360L007
ET : 38/LWT-31
MLP : 2
SSME-1: SN-2011
SSME-2: SN-2031
SSME-3: SN-2107

Landing:
November 27,1989,4:30:16 p.m. PST, Runway 4, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Rollout distance: 7,764 feet. Rollout time: 46 seconds. Orbiter returned to KSC Dec. 4, 1989. Landing Weight: 194,282 lbs.

Mission Highlights:
Fifth mission dedicated to Department of Defense.

• 1989 Nov 23 - STS-33  Crew: Blaha, Carter, Gregory, Musgrave, Thornton. Spacecraft: Discovery. Payload: Discovery F09 / Magnum 2 [IUS]. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 5.00 days. Perigee: 207 km (128 mi). Apogee: 214 km (132 mi). Inclination: 28.50 deg. Period: 88.70 min.

  Manned five crew. Deployed a classified payload. Orbits of Earth: 78. Distance traveled: 3,218,687 km. Landed at: Concrete runway 04 at Edwards Air Force Base, Cali. Landing Speed: 368 kph. Touchdown miss distance: 570.00 m. Landing Rollout: 2,366.00 m. Payloads: DoD Mission - third space shuttle night launch.

• 1989 Nov 28 - Landing of STS-33 

  STS-33 landed at 00:35 GMT.

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