STS-2

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STS-2 was NASA’s second Space Shuttle mission, flown by Columbia in November 1981 as part of the early test flights of the reusable orbiter program.

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STS-2 canonical 4
Space Shuttle mission STS-2 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
orbital spaceflight
abortedPlannedDuration true
callsign Columbia
commander Joe Engle
surface form: Joe H. Engle
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crewLanguage English
crewMember Joe Engle
surface form: Joe H. Engle

Richard H. Truly
crewSize 2
followedBy STS-3
landingDate 1981-11-14
landingRunway Runway 23
landingSite Edwards Air Force Base
launchDate 1981-11-12
launchPad LC-39A
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
launchVehicleConfiguration Space Shuttle Columbia with two SRBs and external tank
missionDuration 2 days 6 hours 13 minutes
missionDurationHours 54.2
missionNumber 2
missionPatchFeature Space Shuttle Columbia in orbit over Earth
missionPatchShape circular
missionStatus completed
missionType orbital flight test
notableFeature first operational use of Canadarm
first reuse of a crewed orbital spacecraft
operator NASA
orbitApogee 251 kilometers
orbiter Columbia
orbiterVehicleDesignation OV-102
orbitInclination 38.0 degrees
orbitPerigee 222 kilometers
orbitsCompleted 36
payload Development Flight Instrumentation (DFI)
Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-1 (OSTA-1)
payloadBayConfiguration OSTA-1 pallet and experiments
pilot Richard H. Truly
precededBy STS-1
primaryObjectives conduct developmental flight instrumentation tests
operate Remote Manipulator System (Canadarm) for first time in space
test reusable orbiter systems on second flight
program NASA Space Shuttle program
surface form: Space Shuttle program
reasonForShortenedMission fuel cell problems
riskClassification test flight
spacecraft Space Shuttle Columbia
spacecraftReuseCount 2nd flight of Columbia
spaceShuttleProgramMissionNumber 2
testFlightPhase early Space Shuttle test flights
yearOfFlight 1981

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

STS-1 followedBy STS-2
Canadarm firstFlight STS-2
Joe Engle notableWork STS-2
this entity surface form: Space Shuttle mission STS-2
Joe Engle spaceMission STS-2