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Mission 3 |
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| Crew: 2 | CDR - Jack R. Lousma |
| Plt - Charles G. Fullerton | |
| Launch | 22 March 1982 @ 1100:00.02 am EST |
| Orbital incl: | 38.02 |
| Max alt: | 255.9 km. |
| Orbits: | 129 |
| Dur: | 8:00:04:45 |
| Landing: | 30 March 1982 @ 0904:45 MST |
| Launch Window: | 3 hrs., 16 min. (10:00 - 1:16 pm EST) |
| TAL Sites: | Rota, Spain (Ejection up to T+2 min) |
| AOA site: | White Sands Space Harbour, NM |
| Primary landing site: | White Sands Space Harbout, NM, scheduled @ 11:29 MST 29 March |
| Landing Speed: | 220 knots (253 mph) - fastest landing speed |
| Landing rollout: | 13,737' from main gear touchdown |
| Vehicle weight @ liftoff: | 4,468,755 lbs |
| Orbiter weight @ liftoff: | 235,415 lbs |
| Orbiter weight @ landing: | 207,072 lbs |
| Cargo mass approx.: | 22,710 lbs |
| Special mission kits: | RMS-201, food warmers, EMU's 1012 & 1013 |
| OSS-1 (9 experiments + PDP, 6,890 lbs | 1) CMP (Contamination Monitor Package), 2) MFE (Microabrasion Foil Experiment), 3) PLE (Plant Lignification Exper.), 4) SSIA (Shuttle-Spacelab Induced Atmosphere Exper.), 5) SFXP (Solar Flare X-ray Polarimeter Exper.), 6) SUSIM (Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor), 7) TCE (Thermal Canister Exper.), 8) VCAP (Vehicle Charging and Potential Exper.), 9) PDP (Plasma Diagnostics Package - with 10 Intruments) |
| PDP | 1) LEPEDEA (Low energy proton & electron differential energy analyser, 2) A.C. magnetic wave search coil sensor, 3) Total energetic electron flux meter, 4) A.C. electric and electrostatic wave analysers, 5) D.C. triaxial fluxgate magnetometer, 6) Langmuir probe, 7) RPA - Retarding potential analyser/Differential velocity probe, 8) IMS (Ion mass spectrometer), 9) Ambient/Neutral pressure guage, 10) D.C. electrostatic field double probe |
| DFI Structure - 11,084 lbs | With IECM (see STS-2) & Eoim (passive) mounted on DFI |
| OEX | IRIS (see STS-1), DATE, ACIP, TGH & CSE |
| SSIP | SE81-8 (Insect Motion in Space Flight), GAS Flight Verification Payload |
| Other | HBT (Heflex Bioengineering Test), MLR (Monodisperse Latex Reactor), EEVT (Electrophoresis Equipment Verification Test) |
| SSME's: | 2007 (1), 2006 (2), 2005 (3) - all third use. At liftoff 100%, same after throttle-up |
| OMS Pods/Engines: | LP-02/102 & RP-02/101 - all third use. |
| ET: | ET-03 (HWT-03) - First ET left unpainted to save weight (550 lbs) |
| SRB's: | SRM-03 - Booster set successfully recovered (One parachute on RH SRB did not deploy) |
| Left - 3A | Right - 3B | |||
| D-4 | 002 | Fwd | 008 | Q-1 |
| New | 083 | Cyl | 038 | Q-1 |
| G-3 | 036 | Cyl | 042 | Q-1 |
| G-3 | 037 | Cyl | 056 | Q-1 |
| G-3 | 043 | Cyl | 057 | Q-1 |
| G-3 | 045 | Cyl | 031 | Q-1 |
| G-3 | 047 | Cyl | 044 | Q-1 |
| New | 013 | Att | 004 | Q-1 |
| D-4 | 012 | Stf | 014 | Q-1 |
| D-4 | 011 | Stf | 015 | Q-1 |
| D-4 | 004 | Aft | 006 | Q-1 |
| 5 October 1981 | ET-03 arrives on dock KSC |
| 25 November 1981 | OV-102 returns to OPF from EAFB following STS-2 |
| 4 January 1982 | ET/SRB mate in VAB High Bay 3 |
| 10 January 1982 | OSS-1 payload installed abourd Columbia while in the OPF |
| 3 February 1982 | OV-102 rollover to VAB High Bay 3 from OPF for vehicle stacking, same day |
| 16 February 1982 | Stack rollout to Pad 39A |
| 22 February 1982 | TCDT dress rehearsal with crew onboard orbiter |
| 26 February 1982 | WCDT conducted with a simulated launch the next day (W=Wet, propellant loading) |
| 18 March 1982 | "Call to stations," 73 hr. countdown started at 4 am EST |
| 20 March 1982 | Astronaut arrival Patrick AFB/KSC |
| 22 March 1982 | Launch |
| 29 March 1982 | Landing at White Sands waived off for 24 hours |
| 30 March 1982 | Landing at White Sands |
| 6 April 1982 | Ferry flight back to KSC, with a brief refuelling stop at Barksdale AFB, LA, one day hop |
| 7 April 1982 | OV-102 delivered back to OPF |