STS-41C
The primary payload of the mission was the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). However, a spacewalk was planned to validate one of the most important goals of the Space Shuttle program, the on-orbit capture, repair and redeployment of a satellite.
The crew assigned to the STS-41CB (STS-13) mission included (left to right) Robert L. Crippen, commander; Terry J. Hart, mission...
On April 1, 1983, divers and astronauts at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., prepared for the first...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A, the school bus-sized Long Duration Exposure Facility LDEF...
41C-3061 (6 April 1984) --- The five-member astronauts crew for NASA's STS-41C Space Shuttle mission head for the transfer van...
41C-3056 (6 April 1984) --- The Space Shuttle Challenger and its five-member astronaut crew leave the launch pad at the...
Space shuttle Challenger, mission STS-41C, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 1984 on the first direct ascent...
41C-34-1380 (10-11 April 1984) --- Astronaut George D. Nelson, using the manned maneuvering unit (MMU), arrives at the ailing Solar...
Candid views of the STS-41C crew preparing and eating food on the middeck include : Mission pilot Francis R. (Dick)...
41C-34-1417 (6-13 April 1984) --- Darwin and Fog Bay, Australia are featured in this 70mm frame photographed from mission 41C's...
41C-31-990 (6-13 April 1984) --- Southwestern Algeria's Erg Chech shows long lines of parallel sand dunes called siefs. The Erg...
41C-36-1618 (7 April 1984) --- The Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm suspends the giant Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) high...
