Talk:STS-31

Other Shuttle

In the [1] picture on the STS-31 page, there is another shuttle on a different launchpad as Discovery takes off. Which shuttle is that?

It's Columbia. Colds7ream 15:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

It would be interesting to know why. Was it safety backup for the Discovery mission similar to the next scheduled Hubble service mission, or was it simply another mission planned in close succession? --AJKGordon 09:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

It was STS-35, originally scheduled to launch on May 16th. There were some problems however, and the launch was eventually postponed to December. 130.234.5.138 (talk) 22:07, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

highest altitude record at that time?

The apogee was 615 kilometers, I can't find any other Space Shuttle mission during which a higher apogee was attained? So why don't we just write "the higest altitude EVER"?Evilbu 15:10, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Inline contradiction

In "Mission Highlights"

 The shuttle's orbit in this mission was its second highest orbit up to that date,

next paragraph:

 Discovery soared to 600 kilometres (370 mi) – the highest shuttle altitude ever at the time

So is it second highest at the time, or highest ever at the time? -- RJS 12:46, 8 November 2013 (CST) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.203.129.22 (talk)

The second statement is correct. The only other shuttle missions I found that came even close to that altitude before STS-31 were STS-41-C (468 km), STS-51-J (484 km) and STS-33 (519 km). --Jupiter-4 (talk) 09:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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