STS-5

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This article is about the Space Shuttle mission STS-5. For the hominid fossil, see STS 5.

<tr><th>Orbit altitude:</th><td>184 nautical miles (341 km)</td></tr><tr><th>Orbit inclination:</th><td>28.5 degrees</td></tr><tr><th>Distance traveled:</th><td>2,110,849 miles (3,397,082 km)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center">Crew photo</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">

L-R Allen, Brand, Overmyer, Lenoir</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center">Navigation</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2">

**STS-5** <tr><th colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center">Mission insignia</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
Mission statistics
Mission name:	STS-5 <tr><th>Shuttle:</th><td>Columbia</td></tr><tr><th>Launch pad:</th><td>39-A</td></tr>
Launch:	November 11, 1982, 7:19:00 a.m. EST
Landing:	November 16, 1982, 6:33:26 a.m. PST
Duration:	5 d, 2 h, 14 min, 26 s

Previous mission	Next mission
STS-4	STS-6

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STS-5 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched November 11, 1982. This was the fifth space shuttle mission, and was also the fifth mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia.

1 Crew
2 Mission parameters
3 Mission highlights
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Crew

(total flights to date in parentheses)

Vance D. Brand (2), Commander
Robert F. Overmyer (1), Pilot
Joseph P. Allen (1), Mission Specialist
William B. Lenoir (1), Mission Specialist

[edit] Mission parameters

Mass:
- Orbiter Liftoff: 112,088 kg
- Orbiter Landing: 91,841 kg
- Payload: 14,551 kg
Perigee: 294 km
Apogee: 317 km
Inclination: 28.5°
Period: 90.5 min

[edit] Mission highlights

STS-5, the first operational mission, also carried the largest crew up to that time—four astronauts—and the first two commercial communications satellites to be flown.

The fifth launch of the orbiter Columbia took place at 7:19 a.m. EST, Nov. 11, 1982. It was the second on-schedule launch.

The two communications satellites were deployed successfully and subsequently propelled into their operational geosynchronous orbits by booster rockets. Both were Hughes-built HS-376 series satellites—Satellite Business Systems-3 owned by Satellite Business Systems, and Anik D1 owned by Telesat of Canada. In addition to the first commercial satellite cargo, the flight carried a West German-sponsored microgravity GAS experiment canister in the payload bay. The crew also conducted three student experiments during the flight.

A planned spacewalk by the two mission specialists had to be cancelled—it would have been the first for the Shuttle program—when the two space suits that were to be used developed problems.

Columbia landed on Runway 22, at Edwards AFB, on Nov. 16, 1982, at 6:33 a.m. PST, having traveled 2 million miles in 81 orbits during a mission that lasted 5 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes and 26 seconds. Columbia was returned to KSC on Nov. 22. STS-5 was the first Shuttle flight in which the crew did not wear pressure suits for the launch, reentry, and landing portions of the flight, similar in nature to Soviet Voskhod and Soyuz flights prior to the ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

v • d • e</span> Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102)
STS-1 \| STS-2 \| STS-3 \| STS-4 \| STS-5 \| STS-9 \| STS-61-C \| STS-28 \| STS-32 \| STS-35 \| STS-40 \| STS-50 \| STS-52 \| STS-55 \| STS-58 \| STS-62 \| STS-65 \| STS-73 \| STS-75 \| STS-78 \| STS-80 \| STS-83 \| STS-94 \| STS-87 \| STS-90 \| STS-93 \| STS-109 \| STS-107
Status: Out of service - destroyed 01/02/03 (STS-107)