STS-3, the third Space Shuttle orbital flight test, with Columbia crewed by Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton. The eight-day mission carried OSTA-1/Shuttle Imaging Radar-A and was the only Shuttle flight to land at White Sands Space Harbor.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 22 March 1982, 16:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1982-022
- Launches in 1982
- 23rd of 129
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