Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-G

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.

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

• Space Shuttle

  Human Spaceflight
  The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
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• Daniel Brandenstein
  Commander
• John Oliver Creighton
  Pilot
• Patrick Baudry
  Payload Specialist
• Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
  Payload Specialist
• John M. Fabian
  Mission Specialist
• Steven R. Nagel
  Mission Specialist
• Shannon Lucid
  Mission Specialist

• Space Shuttle Discovery

  Spaceplane
  Low Earth Orbit

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