Seats 1–4 are on the Flight Deck. Seats 5–7 are on the Middeck.
S1
Gregory
Gregory
S2
Henricks
Henricks
S3
Voss
Runco
S4
Musgrave
Musgrave
S5
Runco
Voss
S6
Hennen
Hennen
Mission highlights
The launch was on 24 November 1991 at 23:44:00 UTC. A launch set for 19 November 1991 was delayed due to replacement and testing of a malfunctioning redundant inertial measurement unit on the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster attached to the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite. The launch was reset for 24 November and was delayed by 13 minutes to allow an orbiting spacecraft to pass and to allow external tank liquid oxygen replenishment after minor repairs to a valve in the liquid oxygen replenishment system in the mobile launcher platform. Launch weight was 117,766 kilograms (259,630 lb).
The mission was dedicated to the Department of Defense. The unclassified payload included a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite, DSP-16 attached to Inertial Upper Stage (IUS-14), deployed on flight day one. Cargo bay and middeck payloads included the Interim Operational Contamination Monitor (IOCM), Terra-Scout, Military Man in Space (M88-1), Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS), Cosmic Radiation Effects and Activation Monitor (CREAM), Shuttle Activation Monitor (SAM), Radiation Monitoring Equipment (RME III), Visual Function Tester (VFT-1), Ultraviolet Plume Instrument (UVPI), Bioreactor Flow, and Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project, a series of investigations in support of Extended Duration Orbiter.
The landing was on 1 December 1991 at 22:34:44 UTC, Runway 5, Edwards Air Force Base, California. The rollout distance was 3,411 m (11,191 ft), and the rollout time was 107 seconds. The landing weight was 87,918 kg (193,826 lb). The landing was originally scheduled for Kennedy Space Center on 4 December 1991, but the ten-day mission was shortened and the landing rescheduled following the 30 November 1991 on-orbit failure of one of three orbiter inertial measurement units.[2] The lengthy rollout was due to minimal braking for test. Atlantis returned to Kennedy on 8 December 1991. This was also the final shuttle landing on a dry lake bed runway.
Wake-up calls
NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Project Gemini, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15.[3]. Each track is specially chosen, often by the astronauts' families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.
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Day
Song
Artist
Played/For
Day 2
Recorded message from Patrick Stewart
Mario Runco
Day 3
This is the Army, Mr Jones
Irving Berlin
Day 4
It's Time to Love (Put a little love in your heart)
James Brown
Day 5
Cheesburger in Paradise
Jimmy Buffett
Day 6
Twist and Shout from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Day 7
University of Alabama and Auburn University fight songs
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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