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STS-29
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 13 Mar 1989, 02:57 pm UTC
Rocket: Space Shuttle
Provider: Lockheed Space Operations Company
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission Description
STS-29 was the eighth flight of Discovery and its primary mission was to deploy the TDRS-D 10 satellite. It also deployed eight secondary payloads.