STS-2, the second Space Shuttle orbital test flight of Columbia with astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly—the first reuse of a crewed orbital spacecraft. Mission truncated after about two days by a fuel-cell failure; first Canadarm tests were planned.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 12 November 1981, 15:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1981-111
- Launches in 1981
- 113th of 126
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