Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-35, carrying the ASTRO-1 Spacelab observatory with four ultraviolet and X-ray telescopes for round-the-clock astronomical observations; it was the first shuttle flight with a seven-person crew since the Challenger disaster.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 12 T
- Flight
- 38th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1990, 06:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1990-106
- Launches in 1990
- 111th of 121
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