Space Shuttle Atlantis deployed NASA's Galileo probe on the first leg of its six-year journey to Jupiter, boosted by an Inertial Upper Stage; the mission also carried two women astronauts, the first shuttle crew to do so since the Challenger disaster.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 25.7 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 18 October 1989, 16:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1989-084
- Launches in 1989
- 85th of 102
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