STS-6
PRESS
INFORMATION
March 1983
oR Rockwell International
Space Transportation &
Systems Group
Office of Public RelationsCONTENTS
STS-6 MISSION STATISTICS . :
FLIGHT TEST AND MISSION OBJECTIVES.
CHALLENGER (OV-099) CONFIGURATION CHANGES FROM COLUMBIA (OV-102)
STS-6 SPACE SHUTTLE ELEMENT WEIGHT AND PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCES FROM THAT OF STS-5
INERTIAL UPPER STAGE (1US)-2
TRACKING AND DATA RELAY SATELLITE SYSTEM (TDRSS).
EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY /EXTRAVEHICULAR MOBILITY UNIT (EVA/EMU)
EXPERIMENTS.
MONODISPERSE LATEX REACTOR (MLR).
CONTINUOUS FLOW ELECTROPHORESIS SYSTEM (CFES)
NIGHT/DAY OPTICAL SURVEY OF LIGHTNING (NOSL) .
GETAWAY SPECIAL (GAS) .
PERSONAL EGRESS AIR PACKS (PEAP)
HEAD-UP DISPLAY (HUD) a.
MODULAR AUXILIARY DATA SYSTEM (MADS)
AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENT PACKAGE (ACIP).
MODIFICATIONS TO COLUMBIA FOR STS-9 SPACELAB-MISSION
STS-5 MISSION SUMMARY .
STS-5 MISSION FACTS .
STS-STIMELINE . . .
STS-6 FLIGHT CREW. :
STS-7FLIGHTCREW ..
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