40 Years Ago: STS-41B, the First Flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit | Simple Site

On Feb. 3, 1984, space shuttle Challenger took off on its fourth flight, STS-41B. Its five-person crew of Commander Vance D. Brand, Pilot Robert L. “Hoot” Gibson, and Mission Specialists Ronald E. McNair, Robert L. Stewart, and Bruce McCandless flew an eight-day mission ending with the first return to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in […]

Category: NASA History, STS-41B

Posted on February 6, 2024

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LAGEOS (LAser GEOdynamics Satellite)

2

Gemini IV

1

STS-96

1

ILLUMA-T

1

54

Langley Research Center

159

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)

2

Underway Recovery Test 11

1

Cryosphere

8

1

Pluto

3

2

Science for Everyone

2

NOAA-20 (JPSS-1)

2

Apollo 16

1

Seasat

1

Candidate Astronauts

15

Stellar Evolution

3

5

Franklin R. Chang-Díaz

1

MAF Status

1

Helios 1

1

4

39

Climate Science

7

E. Michael Fincke

1

Pamela A. Melroy

8

Mariner 4

2

Redstone 3 (Freedom 7)

1

NASA Safety Center

3

AeroSpace Frontiers

59

Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE)

3

Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Inst.

3

Alan B. Shepard Jr.

1

1

2

Super-Earth Exoplanets

10

International Space Station Division

6

Extreme Weather Events

20

10

GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)

8

Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

6

VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography & Spectroscopy)

3

Dawn

3

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1

Project Management & Systems Engineering

2

Missions

365

Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP)

11

2023 Solar Eclipse

9

Artemis 2

203

SIR-C/X-SAR (Shuttle Imaging Radar-C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar)

1

STS-113

1

Hispanic Heritage Month

6

Juno

21

GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer)

1

THEMIS-ARTEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms - Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of Moon's Interaction with the Sun)

1

William A. Anders

2

Commercial Space

102

Earth Visualization & Mapping

8

136

Mars Moons

5

Rings of Saturn

11

Near Space Network

4

Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

27

XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission)

7

Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX)

3

El Niño - Southern Oscillation

2

Planetary Analogs

3

Marshall Space Flight Center

348

Russell L. Schweickart

2

7

1

11

SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)

26

James H. Newman

1

Flightlog

1

3

Gravitational Waves

7

Technology for Space Travel

18

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

12

1

Discovery Program

2

28

Quesst: The Team

3

NASA Centers & Facilities

163

Advanced Space Suits

2

Astrogram

8

6

STS-61

1

Humans in Space

410

Exoplanet Atmosphere

13

Land Cover

11

Gemini IX

1

Solar Wind

14

STS-99

1

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)

7

7

Laser Communications Relay

3

Globular Clusters

6

University Innovation

16

CubeSat Launch Initiative

17

Environmental Management Division (EMD)

8

Podcasts

10

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2

Science in the Air

14

NOAA-21 (JPSS-2)

2

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3

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1

6

Stellar-mass Black Holes

5

Johnson Flight Operations

3

Fruit Fly Lab (FFL)

1

Magellan

2

6

The Future of Commercial Space

13

2

Clouds

18

Early Career Faculty (ECF)

10

Pandora

1

Mariner 7

1

Reflection Nebulae

3

NASA Shared Services Center

14

Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

2

Audio

6

Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)

10

1

9

Space Launch System (SLS)

114

Supermassive Black Holes

21

29

EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer)

2

5

12

Sustainable Flight National Partnership

4

Vertical Motion Simulator

1

Carlos I. Noriega

1

DC-8

6

Opportunities For Educators to Get Involved

23

Project Mercury

4

Modeling

4

Office of Strategic Infrastructure (OSI)

2

2024 Solar Eclipse

46

Artemis 3

46

SkyFall

2

STS-125

1

Horsehead Nebula

1

Jupiter

38

Game Changing Development Program

37

Thomas P. Stafford

3

William C. McCool

1

Commercial Space Division

1

Earth's Atmosphere

36

People of Space Operations

2

5

Robert A. R. Parker

1

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