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STS-51-G
Space Shuttle · Communications
1985Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
Mission
STS-51-G was the eighteenth flight of the shuttle program and fifth for Space Shuttle Discovery. Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was on board as a payload specialist; he became the first Arab, the first Muslim and first member of a royal family to fly into space. It was the first shuttle flight to fly without an astronaut from the pre-Shuttle era. Its mission was to deploy 3 10 satellites.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- LSOC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
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- Year
- Data source
- LL2