18 October 1989 17:02 GMT. Landing Date: 1989-10-23 16:41:48. Flight Time: 4.99 days. Flight Up: STS-34. Flight Back: STS-34. Call Sign: Atlantis. Crew: Baker, Chang-Diaz, Lucid, McCulley, Williams Donald. Program: STS. On the lighter side: Hammond was the 'Caped Crusadar' (head of the close-out team). On launch day, "...as he crawled through the flight deck checking and double-checking the crew's checklists, he thought to take out his Maggot stamp. This was a rubber stamp astronaut Marsha Ivins had designed for each of the members of the class of 1984; it featured the Maggot logo, a Space Shuttle whose payload bay had been replaced with a garbage can swimming with little maggots in space suits..." He proceeded to maggot-stamp the checklists...Manned five crew. Deployed Galileo .Payloads: Deploy IUS with Galileo spacecraft. Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV), Polymer Morphology (PM) experiments, IMAX camera project, Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE), Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment, Growth Hormone Concentration and Distribution (GHCD) in Plants experiment, Sensor Technology Experiment (STEX), SSIP Student Experiment (SE) 82-15, Ice Crystals Experiment. First flight at this inclination. Orbits of Earth: 79. Distance traveled: 3,218,687 km. Orbiter Liftoff Mass: 116,831 kg. Orbiter Mass at Landing: 88,881 kg. Payload to Orbit: 22,064 kg. Payload Returned: 4,819 kg. Landed at: Runway 23 dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, . Landing Speed: 361 kph. Landing Rollout: 2,949 m.
NASA Official Mission NarrativeMission Name: STS-34 (31)
Atlantis (5)
Pad 39-B (12)
31st Shuttle mission
5th Flight OV-104 Crew:
Donald E. Williams (2), Commander
Michael J. McCulley (1), Pilot
Franklin R. Chang-Diaz (2), Mission Specialist 1
Shannon W. Lucid (2), Mission Specialist 2
Ellen S. Baker (1), Mission Specialist 3 Milestones:
OPF - May 16, 1989
VAB - Aug. 21, 1989
PAD - Aug. 29, 1989 Payload:
GALILEO,IMAX-02,SSBUV-01
Mission Objectives: Launch:
October 18, 1989, 12:53:40 p.m. EDT. Launch set for Oct. 12 rescheduled due to faulty main engine controller on number two main engine. Launch set for Oct. 17 rescheduled due to weather constraints for a return-to-launch-site landing at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. Launch Weight: 257,569 lbs.
Orbit:
Altitude: 185nm
Inclination: 34.3 degrees
Orbits: 79
Duration: 4 days, 23 hours, 39 minutes, 20 seconds.
Distance: 2,000,000 miles (approx) Hardware:
SRB: BI-032
SRM: 360L006
ET : 27/LWT-20
MLP : 1
SSME-1: SN-2027
SSME-2: SN-2030
SSME-3: SN-2029 Landing:
October 23, 1989, 9:33:00 a.m. PDT, Runway 23, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Rollout distance: 9,677 feet. Rollout time: 60 seconds. Orbiter returned to KSC Oct. 29, 1989. Landing Weight: 195,954 lbs. Mission Highlights:
Primary payload, Galileo/Jupiter spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), deployed six hours, 30 minutes into flight. IUS stages fired, placing Galileo on trajectory for six-year trip to Jupiter via gravitational boosts from Venus and Earth and possible observational brushes with asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Secondary payloads included Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV) experiment carried in cargo bay, and in crew cabin, Growth Hormone Crystal Distribution (GHCD); Polymer Morphology (PM), Sensor Technology Experiment (STEX); Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE); IMAX camera; Shuttle Student Involvement Program (SSIP) experiment that investigated ice crystal formation in zero gravity; and ground-based Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment
STS-34 Chronology - 1989 Oct 18 - STS-34 Crew: Baker, Chang-Diaz, Lucid, McCulley, Williams Donald. Spacecraft: Atlantis. Payload: Atlantis F05 / Galileo [IUS]. Mass: 22,064 kg (48,642 lb). Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Duration: 4.99 days. Perigee: 298 km (185 mi). Apogee: 307 km (190 mi). Inclination: 34.30 deg. Period: 90.60 min.
Manned five crew. Deployed Galileo .Payloads: Deploy IUS with Galileo spacecraft. Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV), Polymer Morphology (PM) experiments, IMAX camera project, Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE), Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment, Growth Hormone Concentration and Distribution (GHCD) in Plants experiment, Sensor Technology Experiment (STEX), SSIP Student Experiment (SE) 82-15, Ice Crystals Experiment. First flight at this inclination.
Bibliography and Further Reading
- McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
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