STS-41

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STS-41 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery mission that deployed the Ulysses spacecraft to study the Sun’s polar regions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Discovery mission
NASA spaceflight
Space Shuttle mission
callsign Discovery
commander Richard N. Richards ONDG
country United States of America
surface form: United States
crewMember Bruce E. Melnick
Richard N. Richards NERFINISHED
Robert D. Cabana
Thomas Akers
William M. Shepherd NERFINISHED
crewSize 5
followedBy STS-38
inclination 28.45 degrees
landingDate 1990-10-10
landingSite Edwards Air Force Base
launchDate 1990-10-06
launchMass about 117000 kg
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
launchVehicle Space Shuttle Discovery
missionDuration 10 minutes
2 hours
4 days
8 seconds
missionSpecialist Bruce E. Melnick
Thomas Akers
William M. Shepherd NERFINISHED
missionType planetary science mission
satellite deployment mission
notableFor deployment of Ulysses to study the Sun’s polar regions
objective conduct Space Shuttle experiments
deploy the Ulysses spacecraft
enable study of the Sun’s polar regions
operator NASA
orbit low Earth orbit
orbitsCompleted 66
payload Inertial Upper Stage
Ulysses spacecraft
pilot Robert D. Cabana
precededBy STS-35
primaryPayload Ulysses spacecraft
program Ulysses spacecraft
surface form: Ulysses program
spacecraft Space Shuttle Discovery
spacecraftBus Discovery (OV-103)
surface form: OV-103 Discovery
spacecraftName Discovery
spaceShuttleProgram NASA Space Shuttle program
surface form: Space Shuttle program
yearOfMission 1990

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