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Columbia 1
Crew: John W. Young, Robert L. Crippen
Purpose:l check out of the Space Shuttle system, accomplish a safe ascent into orbit and to return to Earth for a safe landing -
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Challenger 6
Crew: Paul J. Wietz, Karol J. Bobko, Donald H. Petrerson, Story Musgrave
Purpose:, Peterson and Musgrave successfully accomplished the program's first extravehicular activity , performing various tests in the orbiter's payload bay. -
Challenger 11
Crew: Robert L. Crippen, Francis R. Scobee, Terry J. Hart, James D. A. van Hoften, George D. Nelson
Purpose: Flew out to the satellite and attempted to grasp it with a special capture tool, called the Trunnion Pin Acquisition Device (TPAD). Three attempts to clamp the TPAD onto the satellite failed. The Solar Max began tumbling on multiple axes when Nelson attempted to grab it by hand, by a solar array, and the effort was called off. CDR Crippen had to perform excessive maneuvers of the shuttl -
Discovery 14
Crew:Fredrick Hauck, David M. Walker, Joseph P.Allen, Dale Gardner
Purpose:capturing the satellite with a device known as a "Stinger," which was inserted into the satellite's apogee motor nozzle The satellite's rotation was slowed to 1 RPM, , operating from a position on the end of the RMS, attempted unsuccessfully to grapple the satellite. Al -
Columbia 113
Crew: Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, Laurel B. Ilan Ramo
Reason for failure: shuttle disintegrated at re-entry due to damaged wing The debris struck the leading edge of the left wing, damaging the Shuttle's thermal protection system (TPS), which shields the vehicle from the intense heat generated from atmospheric compression during re-entry. on feb 1st 2003
