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- For the STS-9 mission Columbia was once again back in orbit.The launch occurred at ll a.m. EST, Nov. 28, 1983, after a 2-month delay because of a nozzle problem with one of the SRBs. This necessitated moving the vehicle back to the Vehicle Assembly Building where the nozzle was replaced. The 6-member crew -- a manned space flight record at the time -- included John W. Young, commander, on his second Shuttle flight; Brewster H. Shaw, pilot; Owen Garriott and Robert A. Parker, both mission specialists; and Byron K. Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold payload specialists -- the first two non-astronauts to fly on the Shuttle. Merbold, a citizen of West Germany, also was the first foreign citizen to participate in a Shuttle flight. Lichtenberg was a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[Summary provided by NASA]
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: STS-9 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Space Stations/Manned Spacecraft Platform_Series_or_Entity: SPACE SHUTTLE Short_Name: STS-9 Long_Name: Space Transport System STS-9 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: Columbia End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 155nm Orbit_Inclination: 57.0 degrees End_Group Creation_Date: 2008-01-30 Online_Resource: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-9/mission-sts-9.html Sample_Image: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-9/sts-9-patch-small.gif Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1983-11-28 Primary_Sponsor: NASA End_Group End_Group
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