STS-51-G was the 18th Space Shuttle flight and the 5th by Discovery. It took off from Launch Pad 39-A on June 17, 1985 at 11:33:00 UTC. It landed at Edwards AFB on June 24, 1985 at 13:11:52 UTC. The main payload carried and placed into orbit were the Arabsat 1-B, Morelos 1, Teltar 3-D, and the Spartan 1 satellites.
This is not my own video, I downloaded it off of shuttlesource.com and edited it on my own.
This was at 7:33 a.m., less than an hour after sunrise as you can tell from the helicopter views. This was the first of only 4 shuttle launches Jim Ball did as Launch Control PAO. He did 51-G, 51-F, 61-A and 61-C. The voice from Houston Mission Control is PAO Terry White.
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