Editing STS-9 (section)

{{Short description|1983 American crewed spaceflight and first flight with Spacelab}}
{{For|the American instrumental rock band|Sound Tribe Sector 9}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2022}}
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{{Infobox spaceflight
| name               = STS-9
| names_list         = [[Space Transportation System]]-9<br/>[[Spacelab|Spacelab 1]]
| image              = STS-9 Spacelab 1.jpg
| image_caption      = View of ''Columbia''{{'}}s payload bay, showing [[Spacelab]].
| mission_type       = [[Micro-g environment|Microgravity research]]
| operator           = [[NASA]]
| mission_duration   = {{time interval|November 28, 1983, 11:00:00|December 8, 1983, 23:47:24|show=dhms|sep=,}}
| distance_travelled = {{cvt|6913504|km}}
| orbits_completed   = 167
| spacecraft         = {{OV|102}}
| launch_mass        = {{cvt|112918|kg}}
| landing_mass       = {{cvt|99800|kg}}
| payload_mass       = {{cvt|15068|kg}}
| launch_date        = {{Start date text|November 28, 1983, 16:00:00|timezone=yes}}{{nbsp}}[[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] (11:00{{nbsp}}am{{nbsp}}[[Eastern Standard Time|EST]])
| launch_site        = [[Kennedy Space Center|Kennedy]], [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A|LC-39A]]
| launch_contractor  = [[Rockwell International]]
| landing_date       = {{End date text|December 8, 1983, 23:47:24|timezone=yes}}{{nbsp}}UTC (3:47:24{{nbsp}}pm{{nbsp}}[[Pacific Standard Time|PST]])
| landing_site       = [[Edwards Air Force Base|Edwards]], Runway{{nbsp}}17
| crew_size          = 6
| crew_members       = {{Unbulleted list|[[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]]|[[Brewster H. Shaw]]|[[Robert A. Parker]]|[[Owen Garriott]]|[[Byron K. Lichtenberg]]|[[Ulf Merbold]]}}
| orbit_reference    = [[Geocentric orbit]]
| orbit_regime       = [[Low Earth orbit]]
| orbit_periapsis    = {{cvt|240|km}}
| orbit_apoapsis     = {{cvt|253|km}}
| orbit_inclination  = 57.00°≠≈
| orbit_period       = 89.50 minutes
| apsis              = gee
| instruments        = 
| insignia           = Sts-9-patch.png
| insignia_caption   = STS-9 mission patch
| crew_photo         = Sts-9_crew.jpg
| crew_photo_caption = From left: [[Owen Garriott|Garriott]], [[Byron K. Lichtenberg|Lichtenberg]], [[Brewster H. Shaw|Shaw]], [[John Young (astronaut)|Young]], [[Ulf Merbold|Merbold]] and [[Robert A. Parker|Parker]]
| programme          = [[Space Shuttle program]]
| previous_mission   = [[STS-8]]
| next_mission       = [[STS-41-B]] (10)
}}

'''STS-9''' (also referred to '''Spacelab 1''')<ref>[http://enterfiringroom.ksc.nasa.gov/funFactsSTSNumbers.htm "Fun facts about STS numbering"]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527232806/http://enterfiringroom.ksc.nasa.gov/funFactsSTSNumbers.htm|date=May 27, 2010}}. NASA/KSC October 29, 2004. Retrieved July 20, 2013. {{PD-notice}}</ref> was the ninth [[NASA]] [[Space Shuttle]] mission and the sixth mission of the [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']]. Launched on November 28, 1983, the ten-day mission carried the first [[Spacelab]] laboratory module into orbit.

STS-9 was also the last time the original STS numbering system was used until [[STS-26]], which was designated in the aftermath of the 1986 [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|''Challenger'' disaster]] of [[STS-51-L]]. Under the new system, STS-9 would have been designated as STS-41-A. STS-9's originally planned successor, [[Canceled Space Shuttle missions|STS-10]], was canceled due to payload issues; it was instead followed by [[STS-41-B]]. After this mission, ''Columbia'' was taken out of service for renovations and did not fly again until [[STS-61-C]] in early January 1986.

STS-9 sent the first non-U.S. citizen into space on the Shuttle, [[Ulf Merbold]], becoming the first ESA and first [[West Germany|West German]] citizen to go into space.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Ulf_Merbold|title=Ulf Merbold}}</ref>