Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
STS-62-A was a planned Space Shuttle mission to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit. It was expected to use Discovery. It would have been the first manned launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base California. The mission designation 62-A meant: 6=fiscal year 1986 2=Vandenberg (1=Kennedy Space Center) and A=first flight in that fiscal year.
