Challenger Shuttle Mission 3: STS-8
3rd Challenger mission 8th space shuttle mission |
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Challenger Second graders learned about Challenger Shuttle's third mission.
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Ms. Fields' Class Mrs. Knight's Class: Mrs. Patterson' Class: Mrs. Stegen's Class: |
Start of Mission: August 30, 1983; 2:32 am, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
End of Mission: September 5, 1983, 12:42 am, Edwards Air Force Base, California
Mission duration: 6 days, 1 hour, 8 minutes and 43 seconds
Distance traveled: 2.5 million
Orbits of Earth: 98
Crew Size: 5
Commander: Richard H. Truly |
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Astronaut Bios: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/
Wake Up calls:
NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen, often by the astronauts’ families, and usually has a special meaning to the individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.
Flight day |
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Played for |
Day 2 |
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Day 3 |
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Day 4 |
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Day 5 |
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Day 6 |
"Tala Sawari" |
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Day 7 |
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Interesting Facts:
· The first African-American in space, Guion Bluford, was on this flight
· This was the first night launch and night landing of a space shuttle
· The mission purpose was to deploy a weather satellite for India, the INSAT-IB
· Space adaptation syndrome (“space sickness”) was studied on this flight
In cooperation with the US Postal Service, the mission also carried 260,000 postal covers with $9.35 postage stamps, which were to be sold to collectors: