STS-29

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	STS-29
COSPAR-ID :	1989-021A
Crew:	5
Begin:	March 13, 1989, 14:57:00  UTC
Starting place:	Kennedy Space Center , LC-39B
Landing:	March 18, 1989, 14:35:50 UTC
Landing place:	Edwards Air Force Base , Runway 22
Flight duration:	4d 23h 38m 50s
Earth orbits:	80
Track height:	341 km
Orbit inclination :	28.5 °
Covered track:	3.2 million km
Payload:	TDRS-4
Team photo
v. l. No. James Bagian, John Blaha, Robert Springer, Michael Coats, James Buchli
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STS-29 ( english S pace T ransportation S ystem ) is a mission designation for the US Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) of NASA . The launch took place on March 13, 1989. It was the 28th space shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the space shuttle Discovery.

team

• Michael Coats (2nd space flight), commander
• John Blaha (1st spaceflight), pilot
• James Bagian (1st spaceflight), mission specialist
• James Buchli (3rd spaceflight), mission specialist
• Robert Springer (1st space flight), mission specialist

Mission overview

The originally mentioned start date of February 18 had to be dropped in favor of repairs (including liquid oxygen pumps for the main engines). On the start day itself, high winds and ground fog were responsible for a delay of 110 minutes.

In addition to carrying out a large number of experiments, the mission had to deploy the TDRS-4 communications satellite . The astronauts also took pictures with a handheld IMAX camera.

The landing took place on March 18 at Edwards AFB , California . Discovery was transported back to Cape Canaveral , Florida six days later by special aircraft.

See also

• List of space shuttle missions
• List of manned space flights

Web links

Commons : STS-29  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• NASA Mission overview (English)
• Video summary with comments of the crew (English)
• STS-29 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)