STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, the thirty-eighth shuttle flight, and a mission devoted to deploying ASTRO-1, an observatory consisting of 4 telescopes. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 2, 1990.
Jon McBride was originally assigned to command this mission, which would have been his second spaceflight. He chose to retire from NASA in May 1989 and was replaced as mission commander by Vance ...
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STS-35 was the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia, the thirty-eighth shuttle flight, and a mission devoted to deploying ASTRO-1, an observatory consisting of 4 telescopes. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 2, 1990.
Jon McBride was originally assigned to command this mission, which would have been his second spaceflight. He chose to retire from NASA in May 1989 and was replaced as mission commander by Vance Brand. 59-year-old Brand was the oldest astronaut to fly into space until Story Musgrave, 61 on his last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope, and U.S. Senator John Glenn, 77 when he flew on STS-95 in 1998.
December 2, 1990, 1:49:01 a.m. EST. Launch first scheduled for May 16, 1990. Following Flight Readiness Review (FRR), announcement of firm launch date delayed to change out a faulty freon coolant loop proportional valve in orbiter's coolant system. At subsequent Delta FRR, date set for May 30. Launch on May 30 scrubbed during tanking due to...
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