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Mission summary
Records
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- Apogee altitude
- 331 km (206 mi)
- Contractor
- Rockwell International
- COSPAR ID
- 1985-104A
- Crew size
- 8
- Distance travelled
- 4,682,148 km (2,909,352 mi)
- Inclination
- 57.00°
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Overview
- NASA
- Space Shuttle program
- Spacelab
- West Germany
- Space Shuttle Challenger
- STS-51-L
- Disaster Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- Record Spaceflight records
- European Space Agency
- German Space Operations Center
- Oberpfaffenhofen
- United States
- Soviet Union
- Wubbo Ockels
Mission summary
- Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- EST Eastern Time Zone
- Microgravity Micro-g environment
- Getaway Special
- Fluid physics Fluid mechanics
- Capillarity Capillary action
- Marangoni convection Marangoni effect
- Crystal growth
- Vestibular Sled Vestibular system
- Munich
- Edwards Air Force Base
Records
Mission insignia
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STS-61-A
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Important terminology
space mission spacelab shuttle crew first west bluford germany challenger ockels nasa furrer messerschmid launch module guion esa also d-1
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STS-61-A | Apogee altitude | 331 km (206 mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Contractor | Rockwell International | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | COSPAR ID | 1985-104A | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Crew size | 8 | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Distance travelled | 4,682,148 km (2,909,352 mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Inclination | 57.00° | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Landing date | November 6, 1985, 17:44:51 (1985-11-06UTC17:44:52Z) UTC (9:44:51 am PST) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Landing mass | 97,144 kg (214,166 lb) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Landing site | Edwards, Runway 17 | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Launch date | October 30, 1985, 17:00:00 (1985-10-30UTC17Z) UTC (12:00 pm EST) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Launch mass | 110,568 kg (243,761 lb) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Launch site | Kennedy, LC-39A | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | Henry W. Hartsfield Jr. | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | Steven R. Nagel | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | Bonnie J. Dunbar | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | James Buchli | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | Guion Bluford | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | Reinhard Furrer | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | Ernst Messerschmid | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Members | Wubbo Ockels | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Mission duration | 7 days, 44 minutes, 51 seconds | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Mission type | Microgravity research | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Names | Space Transportation System-22 Spacelab D-1 | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Operator | NASA, West Germany and ESA | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Orbits completed | 112 | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Payload mass | 14,451 kg (31,859 lb) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Perigee altitude | 319 km (198 mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Period | 91.00 minutes | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Reference system | Geocentric orbit | 1.00 | infobox |
| STS-61-A | Regime | Low Earth orbit | 1.00 | infobox |
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