[DOC] [TLE] Return to Flight...Challenger Accident - NASA History Homepage [PAR] After almost three years without a launch of the Space Shuttle, the United ... He 
served as the link between the many entities external to NASA the ... It's thumbs 
up for the shuttle as the STS-26 Discovery crew celebrate their return to Earth 
with .... to fix responsibility for the "flawed" decision to launch Challenger, the 
agency... [DOC] [TLE] Bruce Buckingham 407/867-2468 Dec. 19, 1991 KSC RELEASE NO ... [PAR] KSC successfully launched six Space Shuttle missions during the past year, 
began flight ... door hinge mechanisms -- after the vehicle was at the pad -- the 
vehicle was returned to the ... of this mission was to deploy the Gamma Ray 
Observatory into low earth orbit. ... STS-43 -- Atlantis was launched at 11:02 a.m. 
on Aug. 2. [DOC] [TLE] The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster - Space Safety Magazine [PAR] On the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Space Safety 
.... with 1,549 hours at the ocean's bottom from February 8, 1986 to August 29, 
1986, .... Mulloy imposed a launch constraint until the problem was fixed or safe. 
.... immediate return to flight for the three remaining shuttles after the Challenger... [DOC] [TLE] Apollo 13 - Wikipedia [PAR] Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space 
program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on 
April 11, 1970, at 13:13 CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the 
lunar landing was aborted after .... The damage to the Service Module made safe 
return from a lunar landing... [DOC] [TLE] Skylab - Wikipedia [PAR] Skylab was the United States' first space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979
, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention. Launched and 
operated by NASA, Skylab included a workshop, a solar ... Plans were made to 
refurbish and reuse Skylab by using the Space Shuttle to boost its orbit and 
repair it... [DOC] [TLE] Apollo 11 - Wikipedia [PAR] Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Mission 
commander Neil ... They returned to Earth and landed in the Pacific Ocean on 
July 24. ... a job with the National Space Council effective August 1969 and 
announced ... given to Slayton after the mission but following the disastrous 
launch pad fire... [DOC] [TLE] Space Shuttle - Wikipedia [PAR] The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system 
operated by the ... The Shuttle was launched vertically, like a conventional rocket, 
with the two SRBs .... The orbiter could also recover satellites and other payloads 
from orbit and return them to Earth. .... After two failures, it could still land safely. [DOC] [TLE] STS-8 - Wikipedia [PAR] STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the 
Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983 and landed on 
September 5, conducting the ... Regime, Low Earth ... It was the second mission (
after STS-7) to fly with a crew of five, the largest carried by a single spacecraft up 
to that date. [DOC] [TLE] As the Final Space Shuttles Launched : The American Institute of ... [PAR] AIAA Members Remember Space Shuttle Program. ... 8 July 2011, Up and Away, 
moments after lift off of Space Shuttle Atlantis on the ... Many people arrived days 
in advance and camped along the coastline. .... (Submitted 30 August 2011) ... 
and the first Shuttle was launched on 12 April 1981, and returned to Earth on 14... [DOC] [TLE] Mir - Wikipedia [PAR] Mir was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, run by 
the Soviet ... Mir was deorbited in March 2001 after funding was cut off. ... It was 
planned that the station's core module (DOS-7 and the backup DOS-8) would be 
... The docking module, meanwhile, was launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis
... [DOC] [TLE] Space Shuttle Columbia - Wikipedia [PAR] Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space 
Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on

Question: To the relief of many, on August 8 this Space Shuttle returned safely to Earth following launch problems
Answer: Discovery