STS-37
STS-37, the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, was a six-day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observatories program which included the visible-spectrum Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) and the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope. The mission also featured two spacewalks, the first since 1985.
- Program
- Space Shuttle program
- Launch
- Apr 5, 1991
- Return
- Apr 11, 1991
- Duration
- 6 days
- Outcome
- Success
Crew
- 🇺🇸 Jay Apt —
- 🇺🇸 Kenneth D. Cameron —
- 🇺🇸 Linda M. Godwin —
- 🇺🇸 Steven R. Nagel —
- 🇺🇸 Jerry L. Ross —