Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-29 mission deployed the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite TDRS-4 on an Inertial Upper Stage, expanding NASA's space-based communications network. Crewed by Coats, Blaha, Bagian, Springer, and Buchli, Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base five days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24.8 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 13 March 1989, 14:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-021
- Launches in 1989
- 21st of 102
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