Space Shuttle Atlantis flew STS-37, deploying NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory; when its high-gain antenna failed to unfold on command, astronauts Jerry Ross and Jay Apt made an unplanned spacewalk to free and manually deploy it.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 33.1 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 5 April 1991, 14:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1991-027
- Launches in 1991
- 27th of 91
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