STS-41-B, Space Shuttle Challenger's fourth flight, deployed Westar 6 and Palapa B2 (both stranded by PAM failures and later retrieved on STS-51-A). Featured the first untethered MMU spacewalks and the first Shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 16.2 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 1984, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1984-011
- Launches in 1984
- 11th of 129
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