Mission record

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-61-C

Space Shuttle· Launch Complex 39A· Success
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Communications
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Sun, 12 Jan 1986 11:55:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#3032 ever

Mission

STS-61-C was the twenty-fourth mission of the shuttle program and the seventh of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission included the second African-American shuttle pilot, future NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the first Costa Rican born astronaut and the second sitting politican to fly in space: Bill Nelson.

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