SSL and the Shuttle

U.C. Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab and the Space Transportation System share a long and rich history. With the retirement of the Shuttle fleet, it seems like a fitting time to summarize SSL's involvement in the program.

Mission	Dates	Orbiter	SSL Involvement	Notes
STS-9	November 1983	Columbia	FAUST	SSL's Dr. Michael Lampton was backup payload specialist
STS-41	October 1990	Discovery	Ulysses	SSl contributed HISCALE and a Gamma and X-ray detector
STS-45	March 1992	Atlantis	FAUST	SSL's Dr. Michael Lampton was backup payload specialist
STS-51	September 1993	Discovery	ORFEUS-SPAS	SPAS carried the IMAX camera used to film Destiny in Space
STS-57	June 1993	Endeavour	SAREX	SSL sponsored an amateur radio contact between astronaut Brian Duffy on board space shuttle Endeavour and students at the Lawrence Hall of Science
STS-80	November 1996	Columbia	ORFEUS-SPAS II
STS-125	May 2009	Discovery	COS	COS is an instrument installed aboard the Hubble Space Telescope

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