STS-41-G

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NASA spaceflight Space Shuttle mission

STS-41-G was a 1984 NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission notable for carrying multiple payload specialists and advancing Earth observation and satellite deployment capabilities.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	NASA spaceflight → Space Shuttle mission →
carriedPayload	Australian Experiments → Canadian Experiments → Earth Radiation Budget Satellite → Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-3 → Shuttle Imaging Radar-B →
commander	Robert L. Crippen →
country	United States →
crewMember	David C. Leestma → Jon A. McBride → Kathryn D. Sullivan → Marc Garneau → Paul D. Scully-Power → Robert L. Crippen → Sally K. Ride →
crewSize	7 →
EVAcount	1 →
EVAduration	3 hours 29 minutes →
firsts	first American woman to perform a spacewalk → first spaceflight with two female astronauts on board →
followedBy	STS-51-A →
landingDate	1984-10-13 →
landingSite	Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility →
launchDate	1984-10-05 →
launchSite	Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A →
launchVehicle	Space Shuttle Challenger →
missionDuration	8 days → 8 days 5 hours 23 minutes →
missionObjective	conduct Earth observation experiments → deploy Earth Radiation Budget Satellite → perform radar imaging of Earth →
missionSpecialist	David C. Leestma → Kathryn D. Sullivan → Sally K. Ride →
operator	NASA →
orbitApogee	365 km →
orbitInclination	57.0 degrees →
orbitPerigee	352 km →
orbitPeriod	91.6 minutes →
payloadSpecialist	Marc Garneau → Paul D. Scully-Power →
pilot	Jon A. McBride →
precededBy	STS-41-D →
primaryPayload	Earth Radiation Budget Satellite →
spacecraft	OV-099 → Space Shuttle Challenger →
spaceShuttleProgram	Space Shuttle program →
spacewalkPerformedBy	Kathryn D. Sullivan →
yearOfSpaceflight	1984 →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Sally K. Ride → Sally Ride →	spaceMission