STS-62-A
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STS-62-A was a planned NASA Space Shuttle mission to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit. It was expected to use Discovery. It would have been the first crewed launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and the first crewed mission to go into polar orbit. The mission designation, STS-62-A, meant: 6=fiscal year 1986, 2=Vandenberg (1=Kennedy Space Center), and A=first flight in that fiscal year.
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Names | Space Transportation System |
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Mission type | DoD satellite deployment (planned) |
Operator | NASA |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Discovery (planned) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 7 |
Members | Robert L. Crippen Guy S. Gardner Richard M. Mullane Jerry L. Ross Dale A. Gardner Edward C. Aldridge Jr. Brett Watterson |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 15 July 1986 (planned) Not launched |
Rocket | Space Shuttle Discovery |
Launch site | Vandenberg Air Force Base, SLC-6 |
Contractor | Rockwell International |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 19 July 1986 (planned) |
Landing site | Vandenberg Air Force Base, Runway 12 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit (planned) |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 312 km (194 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 320 km (200 mi) |
Inclination | 48.45° |
Period | 90.90 minutes |
Space Shuttle patch Front row: Guy S. Gardner, Richard M. Mullane, Jerry L. Ross, and Dale A. Gardner Back row: Edward C. Aldridge Jr., Robert L. Crippen, and Brett Watterson |
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