STS-4, the final Space Shuttle orbital flight test, with Columbia crewed by Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield. After a week of science and DoD experiments, Columbia landed at Edwards on 4 July 1982, and NASA declared the Shuttle operational.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 10.2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 27 June 1982, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1982-065
- Launches in 1982
- 68th of 129
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