STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Launch: March 24, 1992, 8:13 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for March 23, but was delayed one day because of higher-than-allowable concentrations of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the orbiter's aft compartment during tanking operations. During troubleshooting, the leaks could not be reproduced, leading engineers to believe that they were the result of plumbing in the main pr...
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STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Launch: March 24, 1992, 8:13 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for March 23, but was delayed one day because of higher-than-allowable concentrations of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in the orbiter's aft compartment during tanking operations. During troubleshooting, the leaks could not be reproduced, leading engineers to believe that they were the result of plumbing in the main propulsion system not thermally conditioned to the supercold propellants. Launch was rescheduled for March 24. Launch weight: 233,650 lb (105,982 kg).
Carried first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) on Spacelab pallets mounted in orbiter's cargo bay. The non-deployable payload, equipped with 12 instruments from the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Japan, conducted studies in atmospheric chemistry, solar radiation, space plasma physics and ultraviolet astronomy. ATLAS-1...
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