STS-49

Launch: May 7, 1992

Landing: May 16, 1992 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal.

Astronauts: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Kevin P. Chilton, Pierre J. Thuot, Kathryn C. Thornton, Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers and Bruce E. Melnick

Space Shuttle: Endeavour

 

STS-49 equipped the INTELSAT VI (F-3) satellite with a new perigee kick motor. STS-49 made/broke numerous records:

• First EVA involving three astronauts.

• First and second longest EVA to date: 8 hours and 29 minutes and 7 hours and 45 minutes.

• First shuttle mission to feature four EVAs.

• EVA time for a single shuttle mission: 25 hours and 27 minutes, or 59:23 person hours.

• First shuttle mission requiring three rendezvous with an orbiting spacecraft.

• First attachment of a live rocket motor to an orbiting satellite.

• First use of a-drag chute during a shuttle landing.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: sts049-s-001

Date: March 1991

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