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Agency overview | |
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Abbreviation | NASA |
Formed | July 29, 1958 |
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Type | Space agency Aeronautics research agency |
Jurisdiction | United States Federal Government |
Headquarters | Washington, D.C. 38°52′59″N 77°0′59″W / 38.88306°N 77.01639°W |
Victor Glover | |
Deputy Administrator | Garrett Reisman |
Primary spaceports | |
Employees | 17,960 (2022)[2] |
Annual budget | US$28.384 billion (2023)[3] |
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Date | February 2, 1987 |
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Time | 9:41 am EST (14:41 UTC) |
Location | Over Atlantic Ocean |
Cause | RCC tile damage after failed RTLS abort |
Outcome | Loss of Odyssey, shuttle fleet grounded for 23 months, all west coast shuttle mission replaced with Shuttle-C launches |
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Inquiries | Ride Comission |
Station statistics | |
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Call sign | Skylab |
Crew | 3 per mission (initially) 5-7 per mission (Space shuttle) (41 total) |
Launch | May 14, 1973 17:30:00 UTC (51 years ago) |
Carrier rocket | Modified Saturn V |
Launch pad | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
Reentry | August 12, 1987 16:37:00 UTC |
Mission status | Deorbited |
Mass | 168,750 pounds (76,540 kg)[4] w/o Apollo CSM or Space Shuttle Orbiter |
Length | 103.4 feet (31.5 m) w/o Apollo CSM or Space Shuttle Orbiter |
Width | 55.8 feet (17.0 m) w/ one solar panel |
Height | 43.3 feet (13.2 m) w/ power tower |
Diameter | 21.67 feet (6.61 m) /OWS |
Pressurised volume | 13,416 cubic feet (379.9 m3) |
Atmospheric pressure | 5.0 pounds per square inch (34 kPa) Oxygen 74%, nitrogen 26%[5] |
Perigee altitude | 269.7 miles (434.0 km) |
Apogee altitude | 274.6 miles (441.9 km) |
Orbital inclination | 50.0° |
Orbital period | 93.4 minutes |
Orbits per day | 15.4 |
Days in orbit | 5231 days (6.6 years) |
Days occupied | 1015 days |
No. of orbits | 76,981 |
Distance travelled | ~890,000,000 mi (1,400,000,000 km) |
Statistics as of Re-entry August 12, 1987 | |
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Turnout | 54.2%[6] 2.5 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- ^ US Centennial of Flight Commission, NACA. Archived February 20, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. centennialofflight.net. Retrieved on November 3, 2011.
- ^ "Workforce Profile". NASA. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
- ^ "NASA's FY 2023 Budget". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
- ^ "EP-107 Skylab: A Guidebook". NASA. Retrieved February 28, 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Belew (1977), p. 18
- ^ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
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