STS-61-B Mission

Launch Service Provider

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Vehicle

Space Shuttle

Crew

Brewster H. Shaw

Bryan D. O'Connor

Rodolfo Neri Vela

Sherwood C. Spring

Mary L. Cleave

Charles D. Walker

Jerry L. Ross

STS-61-B was the twenty-third space shuttle mission and the second for the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched for Kennedy Space Center and the shuttle deployed three communicates satellites. It also tested techniques for constructing structures in orbit. This mission marked the quickest turnaround of a shuttle, just 54 days elapsed beetween this launch and Atlantis' previous mission.