STS-7
STS-7 was NASA’s seventh Space Shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger. The shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on June 24. It was notable for carrying Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut.
About STS-7 in brief
STS-7 was NASA’s seventh Space Shuttle mission, and the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger. The shuttle launched from Kennedy Space Center on June 18, 1983, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base on June 24. It was notable for carrying Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut. Two communications satellites – Anik C2 for Telesat of Canada, and Palapa B1 for Indonesia – were successfully deployed during the first two days of the mission. The mission also carried the first Shuttle Pallet Satellite, SPAS-1, which was built by the West German aerospace firm Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm.
It carried 10 experiments to study formation of metal alloys in microgravity, the operation of heat pipes, instruments for remote sensing observations, and a mass spectrometer to identify various gases in the payload bay. While Challenger was on-orbit, one of its windows was damaged non-critically by space debris.
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