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STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, the 38th shuttle flight, and a mission devoted to astronomical observations with ASTRO-1, a Spacelab observatory consisting of four telescopes.
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Due to the suspension of America's manned space program after the Challenger explosion, the mission was canceled, and ASTRO-1 would not fly until late 1990 on STS-35.
* Astronomy Laboratory-1 ( ASTRO-1 ) was developed by Goddard Space Flight Center and flown on STS-35 in December 1990.
The launch was originally scheduled for July 1990, but was rescheduled due to a hydrogen leak found on during the STS-35 countdown.
During rollback, the vehicle remained parked outside the VAB for about a day while the Columbia / STS-35 stack was transferred to the pad for launch.
The mission was remanifested as STS-35 during the long stand-down after the accident with the addition of the Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope ( BBXRT-01 ), and the original Astro-1 payload was brought out of storage and recertified for flight.
The STS-35 mission was put on hold until problem resolved by a special tiger team assigned by the Space Shuttle director.
The primary payload of mission STS-35 was ASTRO-1, the fifth flight of the Spacelab system and the second with the Igloo and pallet train configuration.
In 1988, McBride was named to command the crew of the STS-35 ( ASTRO-1 ) mission, scheduled for launch in March 1990, but chose to retire from NASA instead.
He was a mission specialist on two space shuttle missions, STS-9 and STS-35.
A veteran of two Spacelab missions, Parker was a mission specialist on STS-9 / Spacelab-1 ( 28 November-8 December 1983 ) and on STS-35 ( 2 – 10 December 1990 ); which featured the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet astronomy laboratory.
He was a mission specialist on STS-51-I ( 1985 ) and STS-26 ( 1988 ) and was the flight engineer on STS-35 ( 1990 ).
Soyuz TM-11 was launched the same day as STS-35.
The Broad Band X-ray Telescope ( BBXRT ) was flown on the space shuttle Columbia ( STS-35 ) on 1990 December 2-December 11, as part of the ASTRO-1 payload.
STS-35 and flight
Brand again commanded Columbia on the 38th flight of the shuttle, this time with a crew of seven, on STS-35.
Parker points instruments on ASTRO-1 on Columbias aft flight deck during STS-35.
Hoffman made his second space flight as a mission specialist on STS-35, December 2 – 10, 1990, on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
STS-35 and Space
Durrance logged over 615 hours in space as a payload specialist and member of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia for the STS-35 / Astro-1 and Space Shuttle Endeavour for the STS-67 / Astro-2 missions.
He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35.
Gardner next flew as pilot on the crew of STS-35, aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, on December 2 – 10, 1990.
STS-35 Columbia, launched from the Kennedy Space Center on December 2, 1990.
Brand flew in 1975 during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project as command module pilot, later commanding three Space Shuttle missions ( STS-5 in 1982, STS-41-B in 1984, and STS-35 in 1990 ).
STS-35 and Columbia
However, a liquid hydrogen leak found on orbiter Columbia during STS-35 countdown prompted three precautionary tanking tests on Atlantis at pad 29 June, 13 July and 25 July 1990.
This data supplemented data collected on the Astro-1 mission flown on STS-35 in December 1990 aboard Columbia.
STS-35 and shuttle
20 September 1990 – Rare view of two space shuttle s ( STS-35 & STS-41 ) on adjacent KSC Launch Complex 39 pads.
STS-35 and four
Brand flew on four space missions ; Apollo-Soyuz, STS-5, STS-41-B, and STS-35.
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He served as a spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ) for STS-31, STS-35, STS-36, STS-38 and STS-41, and lead CAPCOM for a number of subsequent flights.
Baker then served as an ascent, entry and orbit spacecraft communicator ( CAPCOM ) for STS-27, STS-29, STS-30, STS-28, STS-34, STS-33, STS-32, STS-36, STS-31, STS-38, and STS-35.
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As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.
It was on the tenth day after the wedding ( how could it have been so soon??
In 1996, a tenth anniversary edition was released.
In the late 17th century, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( the tenth guru in Sikhism ), was in war with the Moghul rulers to protect the people of different faiths, when a fellow Sikh, Bhai Kanhaiya, attended the troops of the enemy.
The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.
Put on trial, they were condemned and executed one by one until before the trial of the tenth and last an error of accounting was discovered, allowing him to go free.
In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.
Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands.
It was subsequently endowed by William de Braose, with a tenth or " tithe " of the profits of the castle and town.
This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks ' declining health, but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management, and it was continued from March 1884 as the Annals of Mathematics.
He recounts being a student in that school who was educated by the Martyrs of the Great ( tenth ) and last persecution of Christianity at the hands of pagan Rome.
Benjamin, their eighth child, was Josiah Franklin's 15th child and tenth and last son.
The " X " denotes the Roman numeral " ten ", as this was the tenth such station to be opened by the Secret Intelligence Service.
During the filming of his tenth picture he clashed with director Mabel Normand, and was almost released from his contract.
: " From the tenth to the twelfth century Byzantium was the main source of inspiration for the West.
It was only with the recovery of Phoenician trade in the ninth and tenth centuries BC that saw a return to prosperity, and the appearance of real coinage, possibly first in Anatolia with Croesus of Lydia and subsequently with the Greeks and Persians.
Due to the impending merger of the American Football League and the National Football League, which was due to take full effect in the season, Brown agreed to join the AFL as its tenth and final franchise.
The true motion of the sun was now used to calculate the jiéqì, which caused the intercalary month to often occur after the second through the ninth months, but rarely after the tenth through first months.
The 2011 World Cup was the tenth edition of the tournament.
Lyell's acceptance of natural selection, Darwin's proposed mechanism for evolution, was equivocal, and came in the tenth edition of Principles.
In 2000, nickel production was 39, 943 tons, ranking tenth in the world, a decrease from 49, 152 in 1997.
December was also the tenth month in the Roman calendar until a monthless winter period was divided between January and February.
There was a notation in use like ' tenth-metre ', meaning the tenth decimal of the metre, currently an Angstrom.
In 2012, Dartmouth was ranked tenth among undergraduate programs at national universities by U. S. News & World Report.
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