Space Shuttle Challenger on STS-51-F (Spacelab 2) carried astronomical and plasma experiments; a center main-engine shutdown during ascent forced the only Abort to Orbit of the Shuttle program, still reaching a usable low orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 13 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 29 July 1985, 21:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1985-063
- Launches in 1985
- 64th of 125
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