18 June 2022

Mission Challenger STS 7


 By Astrophilatelie Martin


Mission Challenger STS 7 June 18-24 1983. Flight of 6 days, 2 hours, 24 minutes, and 98 Earth orbits.

Crew: Robert Crippen, Frédérick Hauck, Norman Thagard, John Fabian and Sally Ride, the first American sent into space... 20 years after Valentina Terechkova (Vostok 6, USSR on June 16, 1963).








 


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