STS-49 | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-49


00:00:55 1 Crew
00:01:03 1.1 Spacewalks
00:03:03 1.2 Crew seating arrangements
00:03:13 2 Mission highlights
00:06:48 3 Wake-up Calls
00:07:26 4 Gallery
00:07:34 5 See also



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SUMMARY
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STS-49 was the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite (Intelsat 603, which failed to leave low earth orbit two years before), attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it to its intended geosynchronous orbit. After several attempts, the capture was completed with a three-person extra-vehicular activity (EVA). This was the first time that three people from the same spacecraft walked in space at the same time, and as of 2014 it was the only such EVA. It would also stand until STS-102 in 2001 as the longest EVA ever undertaken.