Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-32 mission deployed the Syncom IV-5 (Leasat 5) Navy communications satellite and retrieved NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility after its 4.5-year exposure in orbit, setting a new shuttle mission duration record of nearly 11 days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 11.9 T
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 9 January 1990, 12:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-002
- Launches in 1990
- 2nd of 121
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