Space Shuttle Challenger on STS-8 flew the first Shuttle night launch and night landing, carried Guion Bluford as the first African-American astronaut in space, and deployed India's INSAT-1B communications satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 20.8 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1983, 06:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-089
- Launches in 1983
- 90th of 129
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