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| Crew: 7 | CDR - Bryan D. O'Connor |
| Plt - Sidney M. Gutierrez | |
| MS 1 - James P. Bagian (EV 1) | |
| MS 2 - Tamara E. Jernigan (EV 2) | |
| MS 3 - M. Rhea Seddon | |
| PS 1 - Francis D. Gaffney | |
| PS 2 - Millie Hughes-Fulford | |
| Launch | 5 June 1991 @ 0924:50.973 EDT |
| Orbital incl: | 39.00 |
| Max alt: | 297.7 km. |
| Orbits: | 145 |
| Dur: | 9:02:14:20 |
| Landing: | 14 June 1991 @ 0839:11 PDT |
| Launch Window: | 2 hours (8:00 - 10:00 am EDT) |
| TAL Sites: | Ben Guerir (Alternates - Moron, Zaragoza and Banjul) |
| AOA site: | Northrup Strip, White Sands, NM (Alternates: EAFB or KSC, in-plane abort: Moron) |
| Primary landing site: | Edwards AFB |
| Landing Speed: | 200 knots (230 mph) |
| Landing rollout: | 9,438' from main gear touchdown |
| Vehicle weight @ liftoff: | 4,519,081 lbs |
| Orbiter weight @ liftoff: | 250,398 lbs |
| Orbiter weight @ landing: | 225,492 lbs |
| Cargo mass approx.: | 27,279 lbs |
| Landing Weight: | 27,279 lbs |
| Special mission kits: | EMU's, Galley, TAGS, Sleeping bags, 5 filled cryo-tanks, PSA, Payload Bay liner, Ku-Band Antenna, ACIP, Spacelab Utility Kit, Tunnel Adapter, a CPR Dummy, Spacelab Sleep Restraints and no RMS |
| Spacelab Life Sciences-1 - Long Module/Unit-1 & Tunnel, mass - 21,271 lbs | 42 expirements |
| GAS Bridge Assembly - 12 GAS canisters mounted on an MPESS - 4,885 lbs | G-0021 - Solid State Microaccelerometer Exp., G-0052 - Melting and regrowth of gallium arsenide, G-0091 - Zero-G ball bearing manufacture, G-0105 - Package of six experiments, G-0286 - To produce foamed metal samples in zero-G, G-0405 - Photography of Precipitates in Zero-G, G-0408 - Five experiments (Fluid Behavious, Crystal Growth, Film Fogging etc.), G-0451 - Zero-G effects on 20 species of vegatables and flowers, G-0455 - Growth of semiconductor crystals (Pb, Ti, Ga, As & Te), G-0486 - 8 experiments (4 soldering & 4 desoldering), G-0507 - Orbiter Stability Experiment, G-0616 - Two experiments - 1) Expose plant seed to space & 2) Cosmic Ray effect of floppy disk |
| Mid-deck | Physiological Monitoring System (PMS), Urine monitoring System (UMS, see STS-24/51B), Animal Enclosure Module (AEM, see STS-8), and MODE-0 (Middeck 0-gravity Dynamics Experiment-0) flight verification payload |
| SSME's: | 2015 (1), 2022 (2), 2027 (3) - All 6th use. At Tower clear 104% |
| OMS Pods/Engines: | LP-03/105 - Pod 11th use, Motor 9th use & RP-04/108 - Pod 7th use, Motor 11th use |
| ET: | ET-41 (LWT-34) with AADS package |
| SRB's: | BI-044 (RSRM-16) - Set successfully recovered |
| Left - 44A | Right - 44B | |||
| 31 | ? | Fwd | ? | 31 |
| 31 | ? | Cyl | ? | TEM2 |
| 30 | ? | Cyl | ? | 31 |
| 31 | ? | Cyl | ? | 31 |
| New | ? | Cyl | ? | New |
| 31 | ? | Cyl | ? | 30 |
| New | ? | Cyl | ? | 31 |
| 31 | ? | Att | ? | 31 |
| New | ? | Stf | ? | 31 |
| 19 | ? | Stf | ? | 30 |
| TEM3 | ? | Aft | ? | New |
| 20 June 1990 | ET-41 arrives on dock KSC |
| 9 February 1991 | OV-102 returns to the OPF-1 following Mission-38/STS-35 |
| 23 March 1991 | SLS-1 payload loaded into Orbiter while in OPF-1 |
| 25 April 1991 | ET-41/SRB mate |
| 26 April 1991 | OV-102 rollover from OPF-1 to VAB High Bay 1 for stacking the same day |
| 2 May 1991 | Stack rollout to Pad 39B |
| 7 May 1991 | TCDT countdown dress rehearsal conducted with crew aboard |
| 28 May 1991 | "Call to stations" 43 hr countdown started at 9 pm EDT & astronaut arrival at KSC |
| 3 June 1991 | Countdown resumed at T-27 hr at 1:00 am EDT after IMU fix |
| 5 June 1991 | Launch |
| 14 June 1991 | Landing at EAFB |
| 19 June 1991 | OV-102 departs EAFB for Biggs AAB, TX for an overnight stay, departing for Kelly AFB, TX the next day. Then on to Columbus AB, MS for an overnight stay |
| 21 June 1991 | OV-102 departs Columbus AFB for KSC and is returned to OPF-2 the same day |
| 7 August 1991 | OV-102 is towed from OPF-2 over to OPF-3 (formerly OMRF) for a one dy series of fit checks |
| 10 August 1991 | Columbia departs KSC for McDill AFB on the new SCA #911 |
| 12 August 1991 | Columbia departs McDill AFb for Kelly AFB after two day weather delay (spends evening at Kelly AFB) |
| 13 August 1991 | OV-102 departs Kelly AFB for Palmdale, arriving at 1:25 pm PDT and is demated and towed into Building 150 fro modification and refurbishment |