STS-61-B | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:01:22 1 Crew
00:01:30 1.1 Backup crew
00:01:39 1.2 Crew seating arrangements
00:01:48 2 Shuttle processing
00:02:45 3 Payload
00:04:04 3.1 Middeck payloads
00:04:29 3.2 Other items
00:05:16 4 Mission summary
00:09:23 5 Spacewalks
00:09:43 6 Wake-up calls
00:10:15 7 See also



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STS-61-B was NASA's 23rd Space Shuttle mission, and its second using  Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 26 November 1985. During STS-61-B, the shuttle crew deployed three communications satellites, and tested techniques of constructing structures in orbit. Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, at 16:33 EST on 3 December 1985, after 6 days and 21 hours in orbit.
STS-61-B marked the quickest turnaround of a Shuttle orbiter from launch to launch in history – just 54 days elapsed between Atlantis' launch on STS-51-J and launch on STS-61-B. The mission was also notable for carrying the first and until today only Mexican astronaut, Rodolfo Neri Vela. This was also Atlantis' second and final mission to launch before the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, which would ground the shuttle fleet for two and a half years; Atlantis would not fly again until STS-27, which launched on December 2, 1988, roughly three years later.