1984 · Lockheed Space Operations Company
STS-41-B
successSpace Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 | STS-41-B
STS-41-B was the tenth Space Shuttle mission and the fourth of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It deployed 2 communication satellites and inluded the first untethered spacewalk. It was also the first shuttle mission to land at Kennedy Space Center.
Overview
- Date / time
- February 3, 1984 at 01:00 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A
- Mission
- STS-41-B
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit