Challenger's night flight
Abstract
STS Mission 8 and its night flight (both launch and landing) are highlighted in this color video. The 5-member crew is introduced and their special assignments for this flight are discussed, along with their continuous weightlessness experiments performed during the flight. The first black astronaut, Guion S. Blufords, Jr., is introduced and file footage of an STS Mission orbiting the earth is shown.
- Publication:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report
- Pub Date:
- August 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983nasa.reptT.....
- Keywords:
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- Astronauts;
- Challenger (Orbiter);
- Launching;
- Night Flights (Aircraft);
- Spaceborne Experiments;
- Spacecraft Landing;
- Gravitational Physiology;
- Space Transportation System;
- Video Tapes;
- Weightlessness;
- Astronautics (General)