STS-4
Sign in to saveSTS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and also the fourth for Space Shuttle Columbia. Crewed by Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield, the mission launched on June 27, 1982, and landed a week later on July 4, 1982. Due to parachute malfunctions, the SRBs were not recovered.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-4
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-4
- Spaceflight.image
- STS-4 launch.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Columbia begins its final test flight from Launch Complex 39A of KSC
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Flight test
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 113
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 2
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- (11:00amEDT)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Rockwell International
- Spaceflight.landing_date
- UTC (9:09:40amPDT)
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Edwards, Runway22
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.orbit_inclination
- 28.50°
- Spaceflight.orbit_period
- 90.30 minutes
- Spaceflight.apsis
- gee
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-5
- Follows
- STS-3
- Duration
- 608971
- Mass
- 11109
- Orbital period
- 90.3
- Image
- STS-4 launch.jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- Commons category
- STS-4
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1982-06-27
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- Commons gallery
- STS-4
- crew members
- Henry Hartsfield
- vessel
- Columbia
- location of landing
- Edwards Air Force Base
- orbits completed
- 113
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1982-07-04
- orbital inclination
- 28.5
- periapsis
- 295
- apoapsis
- 302
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- archives at
- Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Backup crew
- Support crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission summary
- Gallery
- Mission insignia
- Wake-up calls
- See also
- References
- External links
STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle mission, and also the fourth for Space Shuttle Columbia. Crewed by Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield, the mission launched on June 27, 1982, and landed a week later on July 4, 1982. Due to parachute malfunctions, the SRBs were not recovered.
STS-4 was the final test flight for the Space Shuttle; it was thereafter officially declared to be operational. Columbia carried numerous scientific payloads during the mission, as well as military missile detection systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.