STS-61-A on Challenger carried West Germany's Spacelab D1 microgravity research mission and deployed the GLOMR Getaway Special satellite. A record eight astronauts flew, with DLR co-managing science operations for the first time.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 14.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 30 October 1985, 17:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1985-104
- Launches in 1985
- 108th of 125
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