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Mission 9 |
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| Crew: 6 | CDR - John W. Young |
| Plt - Brewster H. Shaw | |
| MS 1 - Owen K. Garriott | |
| MS 2 - Robert A. R. Parker | |
| PS 1 - Ulf Merbold | |
| PS 2 - Byron K. Lichtenberg | |
| Launch | 28 November 1983 @ 1059:59.991 EST |
| Orbital incl: | 57.02 |
| Max alt: | 254.3 km. |
| Orbits: | 166 |
| Dur: | 10:07:47:24 |
| Landing: | 8 December 1983 @ 1547:24 PST |
| Launch Window: | 14 minutes (11:00 - 11:14 am EST) reduced to 9 minutes dues to dust at TAL site |
| TAL Sites: | Zaragoza, Spain ("in-plane" alternate - Cologne, West Germany) |
| AOA site: | White Sands, NM |
| Primary landing site: | Edwards AFB, scheduled at 8:11 am PST, 7 December |
| Landing Speed: | 185 knots (212 mph) |
| Landing rollout: | 8,456' from main gear touchdown |
| Vehicle weight @ liftoff: | 4,503,361 lbs |
| Orbiter weight @ liftoff: | 247,619 lbs |
| Orbiter weight @ landing: | 220,027 lbs |
| Cargo mass approx.: | 33,264 lbs |
| Special mission kits: | EMU's 1037 & 1036, Galley, TAGS, SleepingBerths, Extra Cyogenic sets 4 & 5, Arriflex Motion Picture Camera, Grid laptop computer, Spacelab Utility Kit, FAMOS (Flight Acceleration Monitoring System), Ku-band antenna, no RMS |
| Spacelab-1 (Long Module/Unit-1 & Long Tunnel/Adapter - 18,135 lbs | 73 expirements carried. VFI mass - 2,123 lbs. inc. IECM |
| Onboard: | SAREX (Shuttle Amateur Radio Exp., Garriott Ham Radio call sign W5LFL) & APE-1 (Auroral Photo. Exp.) Air Force Space Test Program QRSP payload Q-001/35 mm camera and image intensifier - shuttle glow, OEX: ACIP (see STS-1) |
| SSME's: | 2011 (1), 2018 (2), 2019 (3) - all first use. At Liftoff 104% and same after throttle-up. |
| OMS Pods/Engines: | LP-02/102 & RP-02/101 - all sixth use |
| ET: | ET-011 (LWT-04) |
| SRB's: | SRM-09 - Booster set successfully recovered |
| Left - 9A | Right - 9B | |||
| 2-A | 010 | Fwd | 011 | 2-B |
| 2-A | 054 | Cyl | 072 | 2-A |
| 2-A | 055 | Cyl | 077 | 2-B |
| 2-A | 059 | Cyl | 078 | 2-A |
| 2-B | 065 | Cyl | 079 | 2-A |
| 2-B | 007 | Cyl | 080 | 2-B |
| 3-B | 044 | Cyl | 081 | 2-B |
| 2-A | 014 | Att | 011 | 1-A |
| 2-B | 024 | Stf | 013 | G-3 |
| 2-A | 025 | Stf | 016 | G-3 |
| 1-B | 010 | Aft | 002 | Q-3 |
| 23 November 1982 | OV-102 arrives at OPF to begin modifications for STS-9 |
| 12 May 1983 | ET-11 arrives on dock KSC |
| 16 August 1983 | Spacelab-1 installed in OV-102 at OPF Bay 2 |
| 24 August 1983 | ET/SRB mate |
| 23 September 1983 | OV-102 transferred from OPF Bay 2 to VAB High Bay 3 for stacking the next day |
| 28 September 1983 | Stack rollout to Pad 39A |
| 1 October 1983 | TCDT dress rehearsal conducted with crew aboard orbiter |
| 17 October 1983 | Stack rollback from Pad 39A to VAB (post STS-8 investigation showed possible flaws in SRB nozzles) |
| 19 October 1983 | OV-102 rollover from VAB to OPF-2 for servicing |
| 27 October 1983 | Remate of boosters to ET after SRB nozzles on STS-9 stack replaced |
| 3 November 1983 | OV-102 rollover to VAB to OPF-2 for servicing |
| 7 November 1983 | Orbiter remate to stack in VAB High Bay 3 |
| 8 November 1983 | Stack returned to Pad 39A |
| 25 November 1983 | Astronaut arrival KSC |
| 26 November 1983 | "Call to stations" 44 hr. countdown started at 12:01 am EST |
| 28 November 1983 | Launch |
| 8 December 1983 | Landing - Edwards AFB |
| 14 December 1983 | First leg of ferry flight from EAFB to Kelly AFB for overnight stay |
| 15 December 1983 | Final leg of ferry flight from Kelly AFB to Eglin AFB to KSC for delivery to the OPF the next day |