Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Space shuttle Discovery launches on her maiden voyage of STS-41-D from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 30, 1984.
NASA

27 YEARS AGO TODAY, space shuttle Discovery embarked on her maiden voyage of STS-41-D from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Among her mission objectives were the deployment of the Telstar 3-C satellite and successful unfurling of the OAST-1 solar array in Earth orbit (both deployments are shown below)...which would pave the way for the four pairs of gigantic photovoltaic wings that power the International Space Station today. Discovery spent six days in space—traveling a total of 2.5 million miles on her inaugural flight.

Two payloads, the Telstar 3-C satellite and the OAST-1 solar array, that were deployed from space shuttle Discovery during STS-41-D in 1984.
NASA
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