Space shuttle endeavour first launch1/27/2024 Its Commercial Titan III launch vehicle had failed to properly insert it into geosynchronous orbit and instead left it lingering in low-Earth orbit. STS-49 was tasked with the retrieval, repair and redeployment of the Intelsat 603 satellite, a critical telecommunications platform which was destined to provide coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Truly, Endeavour’s career would see the shuttle program live up to its original billing: shuttling hardware and humans from terra firma to low-Earth orbit. Her nine-day STS-49 flight was the longest maiden voyage of any of the shuttles and, even today, she retains a unique record for having staged and first (and only) three-person Extravehicular Activity (EVA). From the outset, she began to set records. As detailed in yesterday’s AmericaSpace history article, Endeavour-also known as Orbiter Vehicle-105 (OV-105)-arose as the replacement for the fallen Challenger and launched for the first time on. Twenty-five years have now passed since the maiden voyage of Endeavour, the youngest member of NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet, which went on to complete no less than 25 missions into low-Earth orbit during the course of her career. STS-61 was one of the most ambitious and dramatic missions in the 30-year Space Shuttle Program. In December 1993, Endeavour’s fifth crew successfully captured, repaired and upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
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