Question about Nasa Mission ID's

[LordRaiden]

I'm extremely curious about something that caught my attention yesterday in all the talking that they were doing about the shuttle. This mission was named STS-107, there was another that was named STS-57L that happened a few years back, and another higher numbered one that happened before that. So obviously the mission ID's are not sequential in number, and there has been no explaination as to what STS or any of the other mission ID's stand for. With like the Gemini and the Apollo missions, those were sequentially numbered and stayed in some decent logical order for launches (although I still don't understand how they jumped from Apollo 1 to 7 and had nothing in between) but the current shuttle ID's don't. Not unless they're part of a larger numbering and ID system that I don't know about.

Does anybody know how this ID system works and what the ID's stand for? This is really peaking my curiousity and I can't find anything on it.

 

[LordRaiden]

Uh, nobody knows anything about this??

 

[ElFenix]

they might have started the project and goals of the mission, assigned it a mission ID, but then their project took longer than ones started later.

 

[XZeroII]

Sorry, I don't work for NASA, but if I did I would tell you that information is classified

 

[LordRaiden]

Classified eh? Then I'd have to say that my Flash Gordon decoder ring says otherwise!!

 

[LordRaiden]

*bump*

I take it nobody knows? I sure haven't found anything yet.

 

[Grasshopper27]

You do know you can find this out on the NASA web site, right?

STS stands for Shuttle Transportation System.

They originally were supposed to be in order. They changed them after the first 20 or so missions. The last Challenger mission was 51-L for example. After that they switched back to the STS naming system.

When each mission is formed, they give it a number. They don't always take off in order.

STS-107 was the 107th mission to be planned. It has been rescheduled several times, thus it was the 113th mission flown.

Hopper

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: Grasshopper27
You do know you can find this out on the NASA web site, right?

STS stands for Shuttle Transportation System.

They originally were supposed to be in order. They changed them after the first 20 or so missions. The last Challenger mission was 51-L for example. After that they switched back to the STS naming system.

When each mission is formed, they give it a number. They don't always take off in order.

STS-107 was the 107th mission to be planned. It has been rescheduled several times, thus it was the 113th mission flown.

Hopper

hahah Raiden = pwned ( He said he couldn't find anything yet it's right on the NASA website.)

 

[Grasshopper27]

Columbia's Mission IDs:

? 01. STS-1 ? April 12, 1981
? 02. STS-2 ? Nov. 12, 1981
? 03. STS-3 ? March 22, 1982
? 04. STS-4 ? June 27, 1982
? 05. STS-5 ? Nov. 11, 1982
? 06. STS-9 ? Nov. 28, 1983
? 07. 61-C ? Jan. 12, 1986
? 08. STS-28 ? Aug. 8, 1989
? 09. STS-32 ? Jan. 9, 1990
? 10. STS-35 ? Dec. 2, 1990
? 11. STS-40 ? June 5, 1991
? 12. STS-50 ? June 25, 1992
? 13. STS-52 ? Oct. 22, 1992
? 14. STS-55 ? April 26, 1993
? 15. STS-58 ? Oct. 18, 1993
? 16. STS-62 ? march 4, 1994
? 17. STS-65 ? July 8, 1994
? 18. STS-73 ? Oct 20, 1995)
? 19. STS-75 ? Feb. 22, 1996
? 20. STS-78 ? June 20, 1996
? 21. STS-80 ? Nov. 19, 1996
? 22. STS-83 ? April 4, 1997
? 23. STS-94 ? July 1, 1997
? 24. STS-87 ? Nov. 19, 1997
? 25. STS-90 ? April 13, 1998
? 26. STS-93 ? July 23, 1999
? Maintenance ? OMDP Sept. 23, 1999
? 27. STS-109 ? March 1, 2002
? 28. STS-107 ? Jan. 16, 2003 ? Crew and Vehicle lost during landing approach on Feb. 1, 2003)

Sept. 23, 1999 was when the major overhual was done.

Also, notice that many of the numbers are out of order. STS-109 was before STS-107. STS-94 was before STS-87, 90, & 93.

Hopper

 

[FrustratedUser]

Basically they are numbered in sequence. They are planned. When they really happen is a different story.
STS-107 have been delayed several times.

Saw this on the web somewhere.