"Historical data and analysisfor the first five years of KSC STS payload processing" from NTRS

[nethegauner]

I found the following at NTRS and consider it an interesting read:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19860022999_1986022999.pdf

It has lots of details about carriers and payload statistics.

By the way: I've never read any document that referred to STS-5 through STS-8 as 31-A, 31-B, 31-C and 31-D.

Most astonishing ...