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STS-41C

The primary payload of the mission was the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). However, a spacewalk was planned to validate one of the most important goals of the Space Shuttle program, the on-orbit capture, repair and redeployment of a satellite.

The crew assigned to the STS-41CB (STS-13) mission included (left to right) Robert L. Crippen, commander; Terry J. Hart, mission...
Portrait of the 5-man crew of STS-41C
On April 1, 1983, divers and astronauts at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., prepared for the first...
Neutral Buoyancy Simulator - Solar Max Testing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A, the school bus-sized Long Duration Exposure Facility LDEF...
Long Duration Exposure Facility loaded into the payload bay of the space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center
41C-3061 (6 April 1984) --- The five-member astronauts crew for NASA's STS-41C Space Shuttle mission head for the transfer van...
The STS-41C crew walk out to the transfer van at Kennedy Space Center
41C-3056 (6 April 1984) --- The Space Shuttle Challenger and its five-member astronaut crew leave the launch pad at the...
Launch of Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-41C
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-41-C: Challenger
Launch of Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-41C
Space shuttle Challenger, mission STS-41C, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 6, 1984 on the first direct ascent...
Space shuttle Challenger, mission STS-41C, is seen in space with the Earth in the background
41C-34-1380 (10-11 April 1984) --- Astronaut George D. Nelson, using the manned maneuvering unit (MMU), arrives at the ailing Solar...
View of the damaged Solar Maximum Mission Satellite
Candid views of the STS-41C crew preparing and eating food on the middeck include : Mission pilot Francis R. (Dick)...
Mission pilot Dick Scobee goes bobbing for a morsel of food on STS-41C
41C-34-1417 (6-13 April 1984) --- Darwin and Fog Bay, Australia are featured in this 70mm frame photographed from mission 41C's...
View from space of Darwin and Fog Bay Australia
41C-31-990 (6-13 April 1984) --- Southwestern Algeria's Erg Chech shows long lines of parallel sand dunes called siefs. The Erg...
View from space of linear parallel sand dunes in Algeria
41C-36-1618 (7 April 1984) --- The Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm suspends the giant Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) high...
The Shuttle's arm suspends the giant Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) high above the Gulf of Mexico prior to releasing it into space.
This is an onboard photo of the deployment of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) from the cargo bay of...
The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) is deployed from the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Orbiter
41C-03229 (13 April 1984) --- An overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) of the Johnson...
Mission Operations Control Room at Johnson Space Center during STS-41C