nasa.gov · The individual NASA highlights identify this institution as developer or sponsor of a named Astro-2 telescope. This is an instrument contribution, not inferred onsite attendance.
University of WisconsinAstro-2 instrument provider
nasa.gov · The individual NASA highlights identify this institution as developer or sponsor of a named Astro-2 telescope. This is an instrument contribution, not inferred onsite attendance.
NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterAstro-2 instrument provider
nasa.gov · The individual NASA highlights identify this institution as developer or sponsor of a named Astro-2 telescope. This is an instrument contribution, not inferred onsite attendance.
Places
Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United Statesevent location · venue precision · 28.6083, -80.6044 · America/New_York
Reviewed individual mission infobox, actual crew, backup and support crew sections, named payload examples, NASA primary mission clock/site record and location coordinates. Actual flight, backup and ground support roles remain distinct. No orbital or lunar event is assigned an Earth anchor.
Mission-control shift rosters and the complete experiment-contributor network are not exhaustively covered. Source clock discrepancies are stated in the individual chart qualification.
Wikipedia’s End date text template deliberately advances hidden dtend to the next unit boundary. A hidden end boundary is not an independent observed landing clock; visible clock disagreements and primary-source timing gaps remain separately qualified.
Coverage describes the cited sections reviewed for this record.
Sources and source trail
Sources and review
Wikipedia individual event record; Individually reviewed event clock, terrestrial location and participants
Chart type
event chart
Visibility
public event
Data quality
source review cleared
Library status
Reviewed public record
Source review
Reviewed source notes
Public reports
0
Reviewed
Oct 29, 2026, 6:52 AM
Source quality
Source quality: exact documented - second precision
Wikipedia individual event record
Individually reviewed event clock, terrestrial location and participants
Source label: Wikipedia event review
Earth launch as recorded in the reviewed NASA clock source. NASA prints launch 01:38:13 EST and landing 13:47:01 PST, consistent with its 16 day 15 hour 8 minute 48 second duration. Wikipedia’s visible UTC clocks agree but its prose labels early March as EDT/PDT and its hidden end-date value encodes a following boundary rather than a competing observed clock. Historical regional IANA rules and NASA’s actual EST/PST labels are retained. These are Earth launch/return charts, not orbital telescope observations.