STS-51-B on Challenger, the 17th Shuttle flight, flew Spacelab-3 with seven crew for microgravity materials and life-science research. Getaway Special NUSAT deployed successfully; DARPA's GLOMR failed to leave its GAS canister.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.7 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 29 April 1985, 16:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1985-034
- Launches in 1985
- 35th of 125
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