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STS-41-D – Hartsfield, Coats, Mullane, Hawley, Resnik, Walker Mission Patch NASA – Space Shuttle Patch 3 x 3 in. USED
STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 30 August 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 5 September 1984. Three commercial communications satellites were deployed into orbit during the six-day mission, and a number of scientific experiments were conducted, including a prototype extendable solar array that would eventually form the basis of the main solar arrays on the International Space Station (ISS).
The mission was delayed by more than two months from its original planned launch date, having experienced the Space Shuttle program’s first launch abort at T-6 seconds on 26 June 1984.
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STS-41-D details courtesy of Wikipedia.
