STS-54
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STS-54 was a NASA Space Transportation System mission using Space Shuttle Endeavour. This was the third flight for Endeavour, and was launched on January 13, 1993 with Endeavour returning to the Kennedy Space Center on January 19, 1993.
Endeavour deploys the TDRS-F satellite.
Runco, Casper, McMonagle, Helms, HarbaughSpace Shuttle program← STS-53 (52)STS-56 (54) →
Harbaugh and Runco during the EVA
Inertial Upper Stage
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The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), originally designated the Interim Upper Stage, was a two-stage, solid-fueled space launch system developed by Boeing for the United States Air Force beginning in 1976 for raising payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits or interplanetary trajectories following launch aboard a Titan 34D or Titan IV rocket as its upper stage, or from the payload bay of the Space Shuttle as a space tug.
Painting of Ulysses deploying from the Space Shuttle
The Galileo spacecraft and its attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster being deployed after being launched by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission
TDRS-C in Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay
Release of TDRS-C