Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-51D
STS-51-D was the 16th Shuttle flight and the 4th flight for Discovery. This video includes a post-mission press conference in which the astronauts talk about their activities and experiences in space. A publicity highlight of the mission was "TOYS in space" — a series of informal studies on how common toys behave in zero gravity. Experiments were conducted with a yo-yo, gyroscope, wheelo-o, knuckle jacks, paper plane, paddle ball, magnetic marbles, slinky and toy car.
Shuttle Crew:
- Karol J. Bobko, Commander
- Donald E. Williams, Pilot
- M. Rhea Seddon, Mission Specialist
- Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Mission Specialist
- S. David Griggs, Mission Specialist
- Charles D. Walker, Payload Specialist
- Jake Garn, Payload Specialist
Date: April 1985
Credit: NASA