Living Person
Long_Duration_Exposure_Facility
is
As of April 15, 2026
42 years old
approximately!
Date of Birth
(1984 ) is
Rat
Year
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Moon
approx. 566.5 years old
Mercury
approx. 175.9 years old
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approx. 68.9 years old
Mars
approx. 22.5 years old
Jupiter
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Saturn
approx. 1.4 years old
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 LDEF, shortly before deployment, flies on the RMS arm of Space Shuttle Challenger over Baja California. | |
| Mission type | Materials research |
|---|---|
| Operator | NASA |
| COSPAR ID | 1984-034B |
| SATCAT no. | 14898 |
| Website | crgis |
| Mission duration | 2076 days |
| Distance travelled | 1,374,052,506 km (853,796,644 mi) |
| Orbits completed | 32,422 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Manufacturer | Langley |
| Launch mass | 9,724 kg (21,438 lb) |
| Dry mass | 3,629 kg (8,001 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | April 6, 1984, 13:58:00 UTC |
| Rocket | Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41-C |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A |
| End of mission | |
| Recovered by | Space Shuttle Columbia STS-32 |
| Recovery date | January 12, 1990, 15:16 UTC |
| Landing date | January 20, 1990, 09:35:37 UTC |
| Landing site | Edwards Runway 22 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Eccentricity | 7.29E-4 |
| Perigee altitude | 473.0 km (293.9 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 483.0 km (300.1 mi) |
| Inclination | 28.5 degrees |
| Period | 94.2 minutes |
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