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| Mission: | STS-5 |
| Shuttle: | Columbia |
| Launch pad: | 39-A |
| Launch: | November 11, 1982 7:19:00 a.m. EST |
| Landing: | November 16, 1982 6:33:26 a.m. PST |
| Duration: | 5 d, 2 h, 14 min, 26 s |
| Orbit altitude: | 184 nautical miles (341 km) |
| Orbit inclination: | 28.5 degrees |
| Distance traveled: | 2,110,849 miles (3,397,082 km) |
| Crew photo | |
| Image:Sts-5 crew.jpg L-R Allen, Brand, Overmyer, Lenoir | Previous mission: STS-3 |
Next mission: STS-6 |
STS-5 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched November 11, 1982. This was the fifth space shuttle mission, and was also the fifth mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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Crew
- Commander: Vance Brand (flew on Apollo-Soyuz, STS-5, STS-41-B, & STS-35)
- Pilot: Robert F. Overmyer (flew on STS-5 & STS-51-B)
- Mission Specialist: Joseph P. Allen (flew on STS-5 & STS-51-A)
- Mission Specialist: William B. Lenoir (flew on STS-5)
Mission parameters
- Mass:
- Orbiter Liftoff: 112,088 kg
- Orbiter Landing: 91,841 kg
- Payload: 14,551 kg
- Perigee: 294 km
- Apogee: 317 km
- Inclination: 28.5°
- Period: 90.5 min
Mission highlights
STS-5, the first operational mission, also carried the largest crew up to that time—four astronauts—and the first two commercial communications satellites to be flown.
The fifth launch of the orbiter Columbia took place at 7:19 a.m. EST, Nov. 11, 1982. It was the second on-schedule launch.
The two communications satellites were deployed successfully and subsequently propelled into their operational geosynchronous orbits by booster rockets. Both were Hughes-built HS-376 series satellites—SBS-3 owned by Satellite Business Systems, and Anik D1 owned by Telesat of Canada. In addition to the first commercial satellite cargo, the flight carried a West German-sponsored microgravity GAS experiment canister in the payload bay. The crew also conducted three student experiments during the flight.
A planned spacewalk by the two mission specialists had to be cancelled—it would have been the first for the Shuttle program—when the two space suits that were to be used developed problems.
Columbia landed on Runway 22, at Edwards AFB, on Nov. 16, 1982, at 6:33 a.m. PST, having traveled 2 million miles in 81 orbits during a mission that lasted 5 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes and 26 seconds. Columbia was returned to KSC on Nov. 22. STS-5 was the first Shuttle flight in which the crew did not wear pressure suits for the launch, reentry, and landing portions of the flight, similar in nature to Soviet Voskhod and Soyuz flights prior to the ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission.
See also
- Space science
- Space shuttle
- Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- List of space shuttle missions
- List of human spaceflights chronologically