# STS-51-B

> human spaceflight

**Wikidata**: [Q834698](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q834698)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-B)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/sts-51-b

## Summary

STS-51-B was a human spaceflight . It was the seventh flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the 29th mission of the Space Shuttle program. The mission launched on April 29, 1985, and landed on May 6, 1985. The crew conducted scientific experiments in the Spacelab module, focusing on life sciences and materials processing. The mission duration was 6 days, 3 hours, and 14 minutes. The crew included seven astronauts, among them the first European astronaut to fly on a U.S. space shuttle. The mission deployed the Spacelab 3 laboratory and carried out a series of experiments in microgravity. The crew successfully completed all primary mission objectives. The mission concluded with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.


## References

1. Jonathan's Space Report
2. [Source](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-51B.html)
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. [Source](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/orbiter_flights.html)