STS-3 was NASA's third Space Shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia.

STS-3 was planned as a 7-day flight.

STS-3 was the only shuttle mission to land at White Sands.

STS-3 was the last mission for which NASA named a complete full-time backup crew.

Consequently, the last NASA flight to have a full-time backup crew was STS-3.

The last was similar to an experiment flown on STS-3, and studied the ambient levels of atomic oxygen by measuring the rates at which small carbon and osmium wafers oxidized.

He was the pilot for Skylab 3 ( July 28 to September 25, 1973 ) and was commander on STS-3 ( March 22 – 30, 1982 ), logging a total of over 1, 619 hours in space.

Fullerton was the pilot on the eight-day STS-3 Space Shuttle orbital flight test mission March 22 – 30, 1982.

STS-3 landed at Northrup Strip, White Sands, New Mexico, because Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB was wet due to heavy seasonal rains.

Hart was also member of the support crews for STS-1, STS-2, STS-3, and STS-7.

From STS-3 on, it was left unpainted.

After a one-year initial training program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, O ' Connor served in a variety of functions in support of the first test flights of the Space Shuttle, including simulator test pilot for STS-1 and STS-2, safety / photo chase pilot for STS-3, and support crew for STS-4.

In 1983, he commanded STS-3, the third space shuttle mission.

The crew accomplished almost 100 percent of the objectives assigned to STS-3, and after a one-day delay due to bad weather, landed on the lakebed at White Sands, New Mexico, on March 30, 1982, the only shuttle flight to land at White Sands.

He served as a member of the launch support team at Kennedy Space Center for the STS-1, STS-2, and STS-3 missions.

* 1982 – Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

STS-3 landing at Northrop Strip, White Sands, New Mexico, with two T-38 Talon | T-38 chase planes observing.

Because this did not turn out to be a problem and to reduce weight, Lockheed Martin ceased painting the external tanks beginning with STS-3, leaving the rust-colored spray-on insulation bare, saving approximately of weight.

In an effort to reduce the Shuttle's overall weight, STS-3 and all subsequent missions used an unpainted tank, saving approximately.

* 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.

Two T-38 Talon chase planes follow Space Shuttle Columbia | Space Shuttle Columbia as it lands at Northrop Strip in White Sands, New Mexico, ending its mission STS-3.

Three STS-1 signals may be multiplexed by time-division multiplexing to form the next level of the SONET hierarchy, the OC-3 ( STS-3 ), running at 155. 52 Mbit / s.

STS-3 speeds away from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center.

His technical assignments have included: backup T-38 chase pilot for STS-1 ; support crew and backup entry spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ) for STS-2 ; support crew and primary entry CAPCOM for STS-3 ; software verification at the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory ( SAIL ) and the Flight Simulation Laboratory ( FSL ); representing the Astronaut Office in the development of a crew escape system for the Space Shuttle ; Acting Chief of the Astronaut Office.

STS-3, the third orbital test flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on March 22, 1982, into a 180-mile circular orbit above the earth.

He has served as a chief verification pilot for STS-3 and STS-4 entry guidance, navigation and control simulation testing ; as the Deputy Manager for Operations Integration, Space Shuttle Program Office ; and subsequently as the Chief of Training within the Astronaut Office.

** C. Gordon Fullerton ( Air Force ) ( pilot: Space Shuttle Enterprise ALT # 1, STS-3 ; commander: STS-51-F )

His technical assignments included support crew for STS-3, concept development studies for the Space Operations Center, and the coordination of various aspects of the final development of the Remote Manipulator System (" Canadarm ") for operational use.

The signal is multiplexed by interleaving the bytes of the three STS-1 frames to form the STS-3 frame, containing 2, 430 bytes and transmitted in 125 µs.

For example, four STS-3 or AU4 signals can be aggregated to form a 622. 08 Mbit / s signal designated OC-12 or STM-4.

During 1982, two more test flights ( STS-3 & 4 ) were made.

Hartsfield served as backup pilot for STS-2 and STS-3, Columbia's second and third orbital flight tests.

The STS-3 crew: ( left to right ) Jack Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton

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