page_title: 1988 in the United States
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1988 in the United States / Events / September
caption_attribution_description: English: The Return to Flight launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery and its five man crew from Pad 39-B at 11:37 a.m. on September 29, 1988.
context_page_description: This is a list of events from the year 1988 in the United States.
context_section_description: September 5 – With US$2,000,000,000 in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States' largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
  September 15 – Nicholas F. Brady is sworn in as the new Secretary of Treasury, succeeding James Baker.
  September 17-October 2 – The United States participates in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea and ranks in third place, bringing home 36 gold, 31 silver and 27 bronze medals for a total of 94 medals behind the Soviet Union in first place and East Germany in second.
  September 29
  STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.
  The Space Shuttle Discovery goes back into orbit putting the US back into the Space Race, it deployed the TDRS-C satellite into orbit.
caption: September 29: STS-26, "Return to Flight"
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