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STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis

Space Shuttle Atlantis is one of the three currently operational Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States....
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ch: March 24, 1992, 8:13 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for March 23, but was delayed one day because of higher-than-allowable concentrations of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the orbiter
Orbiter

An orbiter is a space probe that orbits a planet or natural satellite without landing on it in order to study its surface from a distance....
's aft compartment during tanking operations. During troubleshooting, the leaks could not be reproduced, leading engineers to believe that they were the result of plumbing in the main propulsion system not thermally conditioned to the supercold propellants.






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STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis

Space Shuttle Atlantis is one of the three currently operational Space Shuttle orbiter in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States....
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Crew

  • Charles F. Bolden, (3), Commander
  • Brian Duffy
    Brian Duffy

    Brian Duffy, Colonel, USAF is a former NASA astronaut....
     (1), Pilot
  • Kathryn D. Sullivan
    Kathryn D. Sullivan

    Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an United States geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she is first American woman to walk in space....
     (3), Payload Commander
  • David C. Leestma (3), Mission Specialist 2
  • Michael Foale
    Michael Foale

    Colin Michael Foale, Order of the British Empire, PhD, is an United Kingdom-United States astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station....
     (1), Mission Specialist 3 - / (dual citizen
    Multiple citizenship

    Multiple citizenship, or multiple nationality, is a status in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen under the laws of more than one Country....
    )
  • Byron K. Lichtenberg
    Byron K. Lichtenberg

    Byron Kurt Lichtenberg, Sc. D. is an United States engineer who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist....
     (2), Payload Specialist 1
  • Dirk D. Frimout (1), Payload Specialist 2 -


Mission parameters

  • Mass
    Mass

    In physical science, mass refers to the degree of acceleration a body acquires when subject to a force: bodies with greater mass are accelerated less by the same force....
    :
    • Orbiter landing with payload: 93,009 kg
    • Payload: 9,947 kg
  • Perigee: 282 km
  • Apogee: 294 km
  • Inclination
    Inclination

    Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or Axis_of_rotation of direction. The axial tilt is expressed as the angle made by the planet's axis and a line drawn through the planet's center perpendicular to the orbital plane....
    :     57.0°
  • Period
    Orbital period

    The orbital Periodicity is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars....
    :     90.3 min


Mission highlights

Launch: March 24, 1992, 8:13 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for March 23, but was delayed one day because of higher-than-allowable concentrations of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the orbiter
Orbiter

An orbiter is a space probe that orbits a planet or natural satellite without landing on it in order to study its surface from a distance....
's aft compartment during tanking operations. During troubleshooting, the leaks could not be reproduced, leading engineers to believe that they were the result of plumbing in the main propulsion system not thermally conditioned to the supercold propellants. Launch was rescheduled for March 24. Launch weight: 233,650 lb (105,982 kg).

Carried first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) on Spacelab
Spacelab

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory flown into space on the Space Shuttle. It allowed scientists to perform experiments in microgravity in Earth orbit....
 pallets mounted in orbiter's cargo bay. The non-deployable payload, equipped with l2 instruments from the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Japan, conducted studies in atmospheric chemistry, solar radiation, space plasma physics and ultraviolet astronomy. ATLAS-1 instruments were: Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS); Grille Spectrometer; Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Sounder (MAS); Imaging Spectrometric Observatory (ISO); Atmospheric Lyman-Alpha Emissions (ALAE); Atmospheric Emissions Photometric Imager (AEPI); Space Experiments with Particle Accelerators (SEPAC); Active Cavity Radiometer (ACR); Measurement of Solar Constant (SOLCON); Solar Spectrum (); Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SUSIM); and Far Ultraviolet Space Telescope (FAUST). Other payloads included Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV) experiment, one Get Away Special (GAS) experiment and six mid-deck experiments.

Landing: April 2, 1992, 6:23 a.m. EST, Runway 33, Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA space vehicle launch facility and Launch Control Center on Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard County, Florida, United States....
. Rollout distance 9,227 feet (2812 m). Mission extended one day to continue science experiments. Landing Weight: 205,042 lb (93,005 kg).

See also

  • Space science
    Space science

    Space science is an all-encompassing term that describes all of the various science fields that are concerned with the study of the Universe, generally also meaning "excluding the Earth" and "outside of the Earth's atmosphere"....
  • Space shuttle
    Space Shuttle

    NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System , is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions....
  • List of space shuttle missions
    List of space shuttle missions

    This is a list of missions flown by space shuttles. As of 2009, only the United States has flown human spaceflight Space Shuttle missions in the Space Shuttle program, while the Soviet Union flew one unmanned flight of the Buran ....
  • List of human spaceflights chronologically


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