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Wed Oct 22 22:22:42 GMT (Day 1026) STS-117 03/16/07 10:20:00 GMT
Wed Oct 22 5:22 PM Kennedy Space Ctr (GMT-5) ISS Docking 03/18/07 06:00:00 GMT
Wed Oct 22 4:22 PM Johnson Space Center EVA-1 03/19/07 04:10:00 GMT
Wed Oct 22 3:22 PM White Sands EVA-2 03/21/07 03:20:00 GMT
Wed Oct 22 2:22 PM Edwards Air Force Base EVA-3 03/23/07 03:20:00 GMT
Undocking 03/25/07 02:05:00 GMT
Thu Oct 23 0:22:42 Moron (GMT+2) Deorbit Ignition 03/27/07 04:30:00 GMT
Thu Oct 23 0:22:42 Zaragoza (GMT+2) Landing 03/27/07 05:32:00 GMT
Thu Oct 23 1:22:42 Decreed Moscow Time (GMT+3) Deorbit Ignition Orbit 171
Thu Oct 23 2:22:42 Moscow Daylight Time (GMT+4) Apogee/Perigee (n. miles) 00200-00200
Thu Oct 23 4:22:42 Baikonur (GMT+6) ISS-14 Increment Start 09/18/06 04:08:40 GMT
Thu Oct 23 5:22:42 Soyuz landing site (GMT+7) ISS-14 Landing 4/209/2007 12:00:00 AM
3,624 15 42 15 Time since launch of Zarya 1 A/R (Zarya) 11/20/98 06:40:27 GMT
3,610 13 47 08 Time since Unity 2A (Unity) 12/04/98 08:35:34 GMT
3,436 11 33 00 Time since 2A.1 outfitting 2A.1 (outfitting) 05/27/99 10:49:42 GMT
3,078 12 11 32 Time since 2A.2a Zarya refurb 2A.2a (Zarya refurb) 05/19/00 10:11:10 GMT
3,024 17 26 06 Time since Zvezda 1R (Zvezda) 07/12/00 04:56:36 GMT
2,999 03 56 00 Time since Progress 1 Progress 1 08/06/00 18:26:42 GMT
2,966 09 36 55 Time since 1A.2b outfitting flight 2A.2b (outfitting) 09/08/00 12:45:47 GMT
2,932 23 05 42 Time since Z1 truss 3A (Z1 truss, PMA-3) 10/11/00 23:17:00 GMT
2,913 14 29 57 Time since ISS-1 launch 2R1S (Expedition One) 10/31/00 07:52:45 GMT
2,911 13 01 42 Time since ISS-1 launch 2R1S (ISS-1 docking) 11/02/00 09:21:00 GMT
2,897 20 50 06 Time since Progress 2 Progress 2 11/16/00 01:32:36 GMT
2,882 19 16 41 Time since P6 solar arrays 4A (P6 solar arrays) 12/01/00 03:06:01 GMT
2,813 23 09 40 Time since Destiny 5A (Destiny lab module) 02/07/01 23:13:02 GMT
2,795 13 13 42 Time since Progress 3 Progress 3 02/26/01 09:09:00 GMT
2,785 10 40 33 Time since 5A.1 crew rotation 5A.1 (ISS crew rotation) 03/08/01 11:42:09 GMT
2,743 03 42 00 Time since SSRMS 6A (station robot arm) 04/19/01 18:40:42 GMT
2,734 14 45 42 Time since Soyuz taxi flight Soyuz 2S 04/28/01 07:37:00 GMT
2,711 23 49 42 Time since Progress 4 Progress 4 05/20/01 22:33:00 GMT
2,659 13 18 43 Time since joint airlock 7A (joint airlock) 07/12/01 09:03:59 GMT
2,630 01 12 28 Time since 7A.1 crew rotation 7A.1 (ISS crew rotation) 08/10/01 21:10:14 GMT
2,619 12 58 42 Time since Progress 5 Progress 5 08/21/01 09:24:00 GMT
2,594 22 47 42 Time since Pirs module 4R (PIRS docking module) 09/14/01 23:35:00 GMT
2,558 13 23 42 Time since Soyuz 3 taxi Soyuz 3S 10/21/01 08:59:00 GMT
2,522 03 58 42 Time since Progress 6 Progress 6 11/26/01 18:24:00 GMT
2,513 00 03 14 Time since UF1 crew rotation UF-1 (ISS crew rotation) 12/05/01 22:19:28 GMT
2,406 02 09 42 Time since Progress 7 Progress 7 03/22/02 20:13:00 GMT
2,389 12 38 23 Time since 8A 8A (S0 truss) 04/08/02 09:44:19 GMT
2,372 14 56 09 Time since Soyuz taxi launch Soyuz 4S 04/25/02 07:26:33 GMT
2,331 00 59 53 Time since UF2 UF2 (crew rotation) 06/05/02 21:22:49 GMT
2,310 16 46 12 Time since Progress 8 Progress 8 06/26/02 05:36:30 GMT
2,219 05 24 42 Time since Progress 9 Progress 9 09/25/02 16:58:00 GMT
2,207 02 36 51 Time since 9A 9A (S1 truss) 10/07/02 19:45:51 GMT
2,184 19 11 31 Time since Soyuz S5 taxi launch Soyuz 5S 10/30/02 03:11:11 GMT
2,159 21 32 55 Time since 11A 11A (P1 truss) 11/24/02 00:49:47 GMT
2,090 08 22 21 Time since STS-107 LOS STS-107 LOS 02/01/03 14:00:21 GMT
2,089 09 23 42 Time since Progress 10 Progress 10 02/02/03 12:59:00 GMT
2,006 18 28 51 Time since Soyuz 5S Soyuz 6S 04/26/03 03:53:51 GMT
1,963 11 48 42 Time since Progress 11 Progress 11 06/08/03 10:34:00 GMT
1,881 20 34 42 Time since Progress 12 Progress 12 08/29/03 01:48:00 GMT
1,831 16 44 42 Time since Soyuz 7S Soyuz 7S 10/18/03 05:38:00 GMT
1,728 10 24 42 Time since Progress 14 Progress 13 01/29/04 11:58:00 GMT
1,647 19 03 45 Time since Soyuz 8S Soyuz 8S 04/19/04 03:18:57 GMT
1,611 10 18 42 Time since Progress 14 Progress 14 05/25/04 12:04:00 GMT
1,533 18 19 42 Time since Progress 15 Progress 15 08/11/04 04:03:00 GMT
1,469 19 16 42 Time since Soyuz 9S Soyuz 9S 10/14/04 03:06:00 GMT
1,399 00 03 11 Time since Progress 16 Progress 16 12/23/04 22:19:31 GMT
1,332 03 13 42 Time since Progress 17 Progress 17 02/28/05 19:09:00 GMT
1,286 21 36 17 Time Since Soyuz 10A launch Soyuz 10S 04/15/05 00:46:25 GMT
1,223 23 13 08 Time since Progress 18 Progress 18 06/16/05 23:09:34 GMT
1,184 07 43 42 Time since STS-114 STS-114/LF-1 07/26/05 14:39:00 GMT
1,140 10 14 42 Time since Progress 19 Progress 19 09/08/05 12:08:00 GMT
1,117 17 27 49 Time since Soyuz 11S Soyuz 11S 10/01/05 04:54:53 GMT
1,036 03 44 42 Time since Progress 20 Progress 20 12/21/05 18:38:00 GMT
937 19 52 30 Time since Soyuz 12S Soyuz 12S 03/30/06 02:30:12 GMT
912 06 19 42 Time since Progress 21 Progress 21 04/24/06 16:03:00 GMT
847 22 22 42 Time since Progress 22 Progress 22 06/28/06 00:00:00 GMT
841 03 44 47 Time since STS-121 STS-121 07/04/06 18:37:55 GMT
586 12 02 42 Time since STS-115 STS-115 03/16/07 10:20:00 GMT
765 18 14 02 Time since Soyuz 13S Soyuz 13S 09/18/06 04:08:40 GMT
735 22 22 42 Time since Progress 23 Progress 23 10/18/06 00:00:00 GMT
682 20 35 07 Time since STS-116 STS-116 12/10/06 01:47:35 GMT
644 22 52 42 Time to Progress 24 Progress 24 01/16/07 23:30:00 GMT
586 12 02 42 Time to STS-117 STS-117 03/16/07 10:20:00 GMT
562 22 22 42 Time to Soyuz 14S Soyuz 14S 04/09/07 00:00:00 GMT
482 22 22 42 Time to STS-118 STS-118 06/28/07 00:00:00 GMT
8:30:00 PM ET fueling begins Launch 03/16 05:20 AM EVA-1 Start 10/10/2002 11:21
2:40:00 AM Crew heads for launch pad Landing 03/27 12:32 AM Elapsed Time 52902:01:42
3:00:00 AM Astronauts strap in
5:15:00 AM Start T-minus 20 hold Days 15 EVA-2 Start 10/12/2002 10:31
5:25:00 AM Resume countdown Hours 22 Elapsed time 52854:51:42
5:36:00 AM Start T-minus 9 hold Minutes 20
6:11:00 AM Resume countdown Seconds 22 EVA-3 Start 10/14/2002 10:41
6:15:00 AM APU start Elapsed time 52806:41:42
6:15:17 AM Planar Window Open Eastern Time 04/01 03:40:22 AM
6:20:00 AM Launch Halfway Point 03/21 02:56 PM Time to Landing 13807:50:42
7:30:00 PM Deorbit timeline begins Start Time 04/19 02:41 PM Start time/date 3/2/1952
8:50:00 PM Close payload bay doors Event 04/30 09:35 AM End time/date 10/22/2008
9:12:00 PM OPS-3 computer load 10 Days
9:36:00 PM Crew reviews entry tasks 18 Hours Days between: 20,688.72
10:05:00 PM Crew dons pressure suits 54 Minutes
11:09:00 PM MCC "go" for deorbit burn Start time/date
Event 1: Event 2: Elapsed End time/date
11:30:00 PM Deorbit ignition 1/1/2003 10/22/2008 2121.72
11:50:00 PM Shuttle hits atmosphere Days between: 0.00
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13909:22:42 03/23/07 Fri 04:00 AM 06 21 40 EVA-3: Node/Service Module LAN cable routing
13908:37:42 03/23/07 Fri 04:45 AM 06 22 25 EVA-3: EV1: Vent open
03/23/07 Fri 04:45 AM 06 22 25 EVA-3: EV2: Get-aheads
13908:17:42 03/23/07 Fri 05:05 AM 06 22 45 EVA-3: Cleanup and airlock ingress
13907:52:42 03/23/07 Fri 05:30 AM 06 23 10 SSRMS walkoff MBS to Lab
13907:37:42 03/23/07 Fri 05:45 AM 06 23 25 EVA-3: Airlock repressurization
13907:22:42 03/23/07 Fri 06:00 AM 06 23 40 Spacesuit servicing
03/23/07 Fri 07:05 AM 07 00 45 SRMS to park position
03/23/07 Fri 09:50 AM 07 03 30 ISS crew sleep begins
03/23/07 Fri 10:15 AM 07 03 55 MT moves from WS-4 to WS-1
13903:02:42 03/23/07 Fri 10:20 AM 07 04 00 STS crew sleep begins
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Current as of: 10/22/2008 CBS News Space Shuttle Manifest Page 24
ISS-13 Up: 1 Launch: STS-121 CDR Lindsey Return to flight test mission;
03/30/06 07/04/06 ULF 1.1 PLT M. Kelly TUS/MT repair; TPS tests
Discovery MS1/EV2Fossum Reiter to ISS
Vinogradov Land: MS2 Nowak
J Williams 07/17/06 MS3 Wilson EVA-1/2/3: Sellers, Fossum
Reiter MS4/EV1 Sellers
(STS-121) COMPLETE MS5 Reiter, ESA (up)
STS-115/ISS-12A Elements/EVAs
2 Launch: STS-115 CDR Jett 2nd port truss segment (P3/P4); 2nd
09/09/06 12A PLT Ferguson set of solar arrays; 3 EVAs
Atlantis MS1/EV1 Tanner
Land: MS2/EV3 Burbank EVA-1: Tanner, Piper
09/21/06 MS3/EV2 Piper EVA-2: Burbank, MacLean
MS4/EV4 MacLean EVA-3: Tanner, Piper
COMPLETE
ISS-14 Up:
09/18/06
Lopez A
Tyurin
Ansari
ISS-13 Dn:
09/28/06
Vinogradov
J Williams
Ansari
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STS-116/ISS-12.1 Elements/EVAs
116 Dn:
Reiter
Yurchikhin
Kotov
Simony
ISS-14 Dn:
04/19/06
Lopez A
Tyurin
Simony
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STS-118/ISS-13A.1 Elements/EVAs
118 Up: 5 Launch: STS-118 CDR S. Kelly 3rd starboard truss element (S5);
Anderson 06/28/07 13A.1 PLT Hobaugh External stowage platform 3 (ESP-3);
118 Down: Endeavour MS1 Caldwell power transfer system
Williams MS2/EV1 Mastracchio
MS3/EV2 D. Williams EVA-1: Mastracchio, Williams
MS4 Morgan EVA-2: Mastracchio, Williams
MS5 Anderson (up) EVA-3: Mastracchio, TBD
MS5 Williams (down) EVA-4: Williams, TBD
STS-120/ISS-10A Elements/EVAs
120 Up: Tani 6 launch: STS-120 CDR Melroy Node 2 multi-hatch connecting
Tani 9/7/2007* 10A PLT Zamka module; Sidewall PDGF
120 Dn: Atlantis MS Parazynski P6 relocation
Anderson MS Wheelock
MS Foreman
* 9/14 if Soyuz on 9/1 MS Nespoli, ESA
MS Tani (up)
ISS-16 Up:
09/02/07
ISS-15 Dn:
09/12/07
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2008
9 Launch: STS-124 TBD Kibo research module; Japanese
02/29/08 1J remote manipulator system
Atlantis
ISS-17 Up:
March 08
ISS-16 Dn:
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2009
NOTE:
Soyuz
dates TBD
with 6
person
crew
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2010
Soyuz Up:
March 10
Soyuz Dn:
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STS-117/ISS-13 Quick-Look Data CBS News SpaceCalc STS-117/ISS-14 Crew Data CBS News SpaceCalc
Position/Age Astronaut/Flights Family/TIS DOB/Seat Shuttle Hardware and Flight Data Position/Age Astronaut/Flights/Education Fam/TS DOB/Seat Home/BKG Hobbies
Commander USMC Frederick Sturckow M/? 08/11/61 STS Mission STS-117 (flight 118) Commander USMC Frederick Sturckow M/? 08/11/61 Lakesite, CA Flying and physical
45 2: STS-88,105 23.6 days Up/Up Orbiter Atlantis (28) Age: 45 2: STS-88,105 23.6 days Up/Up Desert Storm training
Pilot AF Col.. Lee Archambault M/3 08/25/60 Payload ISS S3/S4 Bachelor's, mechanical engineering AF test pilot grad
46 0: Rookie 0.0 Up/Up Launch 06:20:00 AM 03.16.07
MS1/EV3 Patrick Forrester M/2 03/31/57 Pad/MLP LC-39A/MLP-2 Pilot AF Col.. Lee Archambault M/3 08/25/60 Bellwood, ILL Bicycling, weightlifting,
49 1: STS-105 11.9 Up/Up Prime TAL Zaragoza 46 0: Rookie 0.0 Up/Up Desert Storm golf, ice hockey
MS2/FE/EV4 Steven Swanson M/3 12/03/60 Landing 01:32:00 AM 03.27.07 Master's, aeronautical engineering #1 test pilot
46 0: Rookie 0.0 Up/Up Landing Site Kennedy Space Center
MS3/EV2 John D. Olivas, Ph.D. M/5 05/25/66 Duration 10/19:12 MS1/EV3 Patrick Forrester M/2 03/31/57 El Paso, TX Baseball, running
40 0: Rookie 0.0 Dn/Dn 51 1: STS-105 11.9 Up/Up West Point
MS4/EV1 James Reilly II, Ph.D. S/? 03/18/54 Atlantis 231/16:33:52 Master's, aeronautical engineering Test pilot
53 2: STS-89,104 23.8 Dn/Dn STS Program 1082/20:36:47
MS5 N/A N/A N/A MS2/FE/EV4 Steven Swanson M/3 12/03/60 Steamboat S. CO Mountain biking, basketball,
N/A N/A N/A MECO 134.8/35.7 sm 46 0: Rookie 0.0 Up/Up Software engineer skiing, weight lifting,
OMS Ha/Hp TBD Ph.D., computer science Flight simulation running, woodworking
ISS-14 CDR Navy Capt. Michael Lopez-Alegria M/1 05/30/58 ISS Docking 220 sm
48 4: STS-73,92,113,ISS-14 807.6 N/A Period 91.6 minutes MS3/EV2 John D. Olivas, Ph.D. M/5 05/25/66 El Paso, TX Running, weight lifting,
ISS-14 FE Mikhail Tyurin, cosmonaut M/1 03/02/60 Inclination 51.6 40 0: Rookie 0.0 Dn/Dn Comm. engineer hunting, fishing, surfing,
47 2: ISS-3,ISS-14 890.6 N/A Velocity 17,188 mph Ph.D., mechanical engineering JPL engineer mountain biking
ISS-14 FE Navy Cmdr. Sunita Williams M/0 09/19/65 EOM Miles 4.9 million
41 1: STS-116/ISS-14 682.6 N/A EOM Orbits 171/172 MS4/EV1 James Reilly II, Ph.D. S/? 03/18/54 Mesquite, TX Flying, skiing, running,
53 2: STS-89,104 23.8 Dn/Dn Antarctic studies photography, soccer,
Reilly Swanson Sturckow Archambault Forrester Olivas SSMEs 2059/2052/2057 Ph.D., geoscience Oil & gas explor. hunting and fishing
ET/SRB ET-124/Bi129/RSRM96
Software OI-30
Left OMS LP04/28/F2 ISS-14 CDR Navy Capt. Michael Lopez-Alegria M/1 05/30/58 Madrid/Calif Sports, traveling, cooking,
Right OMS RP01/35/F2 48 4: STS-73,92,113,ISS-14 807.6 N/A Navy test pilot international affairs; speaks
Forward RCS FRC4/28/F2 Master's, aeronautical engineering >5k hours flying four languages
OBSS 201
RMS 301 ISS-14 FE Mikhail Tyurin, cosmonaut M/1 03/02/60 Kolomna, Russia Sailing
Cryo/GN2 5 PRSD/5 GN2 50 2: ISS-3,ISS-14 890.6 N/A Energia engineer
Spacesuits TBD MS in aerospace technology Human factors
Flight Plan MET Flight Control Personnel This will be the… ISS-14 FE Navy Cmdr. Sunita Williams M/0 09/19/65 Needham, MA Running, swimming, biking,
41 1: STS-116/ISS-14 682.6 Dn Navy diver, helo triathlons, wind surfing,
Launch Norm Knight Ascent 118th Shuttle mission since STS-1 Master's, engineering management pilot; >2.7k hours snowboarding, bow hunting
3/16/2007 06:20 AM Cathy Koerner Orbit 1 FD (lead) 5th Post-Columbia mission
ISS Docking Bryan Lunney Orbit 2 FD 93rd Post-Challenger mission Reilly Swanson Sturckow Archambault Forrester Olivas Williams Lopez-Alegria Tyurin
3/18/2007 02:00 AM Richard Jones Planning 28th Flight of Atlantis
EVA-1 Norm Knight Entry 30th Night launch
3/19/2007 12:10 AM Shannon/Cain MMT chair 65th Launch off pad 39A
EVA-2 A. Hasbrook ISS Orbit 1 FD 17th Night launch off pad 39A
3/20/2007 11:20 PM Kelly Beck ISS Orbit 2 FD (lead) TBD 51.6-degree inclination
EVA-3 Holly Ridings ISS Orbit 3 FD 65th Planned KSC landing
3/22/2007 11:20 PM Mike Leinbach Launch director 22nd Planned night landing
Landing NTD Steve Payne 16th Planned night landing at KSC
3/27/2007 01:32 AM Jessica Rye Countdown PAO 21.14 Years since STS-51L
Kyle Herring Ascent PAO 4.12 Years since STS-107
* Ages as of launch date *Days in space as of: 10/22/2008 Compiled by William Harwood *Age, days in space as of: 10/22/08 Compiled by William Harwood
STS-117/ISS-13 Quick-Look Data CBS News SpaceCalc STS-117 Quick-Look Keyboard Template
Orbiter D/H:M:S Flights Most Recent Flight Demographics 116 117 Launches LC-39A LC-39B Total Rank/Age* Name/Flights Family/TIS DOB/Seating STS-121 will be the… Demographics 116 117 Payload/Landing Site Hardware
Night 16 13 29
Challenger* 062/07:56:22 10 STS-51L: 01/28/86 Total Fliers 454 457 Daylight 48 40 88 Commander USMC Frederick Sturckow M/? 8/11/1961 118th Shuttle mission since STS-1 Total Fliers 454 457 STS Mission STS-117 (flight 118) SSME-FLTs 2059/2052/2057
Columbia* 300/17:40:22 28 STS-107: 01/16/03 Nations 34 34 Total 64 53 117 45 2: STS-88,105 23.6 days Up/Up 5th Post-Columbia mission Male 0 0 Orbiter Atlantis (28) ET/SRB ET-124/Bi129/RSRM96
Discovery 281/12:13:54 33 STS-116: 12/09/06 Male 0 0 Most Recent 01/16/03* 12/9/2006 *STS-107 Pilot AF Col.. Lee Archambault M/3 8/25/1960 93rd Post-Challenger mission Female 0 0 Payload ISS S3/S4 Software OI-30
Atlantis 231/16:33:52 27 STS-115: 09/09/06 Female 0 0 Landings KSC EAFB WSSH Total 46 0: Rookie 0 Up/Up 28th Flight of Discovery Total Tickets 1011 1,017 Launch 3/16 06:20:00 AM Left OMS LP04/28/F2
Endeavour 206/14:12:17 19 STS-113: 11/23/02 Total Tickets 1,011 1,017 Night 15 6 0 21 MS1/EV3 Patrick Forrester M/2 3/31/1957 30th Day launch US 0 0 Pad/MLP LC-39A/MLP-2 Right OMS RP01/35/F2
Total 1082/20:36:47 117 * Vehicle lost Daylight 49 44 1 94 49 1: STS-105 11.9 Up/Up 65th Day launch pad 39B US Men 249 252 Prime TAL Zaragoza Forward RCS FRC4/28/F2
United States 0 0 Total 64 50 1 115 MS2/FE/EV4 Steven Swanson M/3 12/3/1960 17th Launch off pad 39B US Women 38 38 Backup TAL Moron OBSS 201
Launches LC-39A LC-39B Total United States men 249 252 Most Recent 12/22/06 8/9/2005 3/30/1982 *STS-113 46 0: Rookie 0.0 Up/Up TBD 51.6-degree inclination USSR 0 0 Backup TAL Istres-le-Tube RMS 301
United States Women 38 38 STS Aborts Date Time Abort Mission MS3/EV2 John D. Olivas, Ph.D. M/5 5/25/1966 65th Planned KSC landing USSR Men 70 70 Landing 3/27 01:32:00 AM Cryo 5
Night 16 13 29 USSR 0 0 Discovery 6/26/1984 T-00:03 RSLS-1 STS-41D 40 0: Rookie 0.0 Dn/Dn 22nd Planned day Landing USSR Women 2 2 Landing Site Kennedy Space Center GN2 5
Daylight 48 40 88 USSR Men 70 70 Challenger 7/12/1985 T-00:03 RSLS-2 STS-51F MS4/EV1 James Reilly II, Ph.D. S/? 3/18/1954 16th Planned day landing at KSC CIS 0 0 Duration 10/19:12 Spacesuits 2 STS/2 ISS
Total 64 53 117 USSR Women 2 2 Challenger 7/29/1985 T+05:45 ATO-1 STS-51F 53 2: STS-89,104 23.8 Dn/Dn CIS Men 27 27
Most Recent 01/16/03* 12/9/2006 *STS-107 CIS 0 0 Columbia 3/22/1993 T-00:03 RSLS-3 STS-55 MS5 N/A N/A N/A 21.14 Years since STS-51L CIS Women 1 1 Orbital Parameters STS/ISS Flight Control Personnel
CIS Men 27 27 Discovery 8/12/1993 T-00:03 RSLS-4 STS-51 N/A N/A N/A 4.12 Years since STS-107 Non US/Russian 454 457
Landings KSC EAFB WSSH Total CIS Women 1 1 Endeavour 8/18/1994 T-00:02 RSLS-5 STS-68 Men -346 -349 MECO Ha/Hp 134.8/35.7 sm Ascent Norm Knight
Non US/Russian 454 457 EVA Data HH MM Minimum Duration Missions Orbiter D/H:M:S Flts Most Recent Flight Women -41 -41 OMS Ha/Hp TBD Orbit 1 (lead) Cathy Koerner
Night 15 6 0 21 Men -346 -349 HST Total 4 Flts/14 crew 18 EVAs 171/03:33 003 7 Flights 2 2 ISS Ha/Hp 220 sm Orbit 2 Bryan Lunney
Daylight 49 44 1 94 Women -41 -41 Longest EVA 3/8/2001 STS-102 008 056 102/STS-2 Fuel cell Challenger 062/07:56:22 10 STS-51L: 01/28/86* 6 Flights 6 6 Period 91.6 minutes Planning Richard Jones
Total 64 50 1 115 Men with 7 flights 2 2 Shortest EVA 6/24/2004 ISS-10 000 014 11/21/1981MET: 2/06:13 Columbia 284/19:19:01 28 STS-107: 01/16/03* 5 Flights 19 19 Inclination 51.6 Entry Norm Knight
Most Recent 12/22/2006 8/9/2005 3/30/1982 Men with 6 flights 6 6 ISS EVAs 51 Fliers 77 EVAs 469 059 104/STS-44 IMU Discovery 281/12:13:54 33 STS-116: 12/09/06 4 Flights 61 61 Velocity 17,188 mph MMT Shannon/Cain
Women/6 0 0 STS-based ODS/Quest 28 EVAs 187 020 11/19/1991MET: 6/23:52 Atlantis 231/16:33:52 27 STS-115: 09/09/06 3 Flights 71 73 EOM Miles 4.9 million ISS Orbit 1 A. Hasbrook
STS Aborts Date Time Abort Mission Men/5 13 13 ISS-based Pirs/Quest 49 EVAs 282 039 102/STS-83 Fuel cell Endeavour 206/14:12:17 19 STS-113: 11/23/02 2 Flights 114 113 EOM Orbits 171/172 ISS Orbit 2 Kelly Beck
Women/5 6 6 Russian A. Solovyev 16 EVAs 077 041 4/4/1997 MET: 3/23:13 Total 1082/20:36:47 117 *Vehicle lost 1 Flight 181 183 ISS Orbits 56,549 10/22/08 ISS Orbit 3 Holly Ridings
Discovery 6/26/1984 T-00:03 RSLS-1 STS-41D Men/4 55 55 U.S. Jerry Ross 9 EVAs 058 018
Challenger 7/12/1985 T-00:03 RSLS-2 STS-51F Women/4 6 6 Rev. N/A * Age, time in space (days) as of: 10/22/08 Compiled by William Harwood, CBS News
Challenger 7/29/1985 T+05:45 ATO-1 STS-51F Men/3 66 68
Columbia 3/22/1993 T-00:03 RSLS-3 STS-55 Women/3 5 5
Discovery 8/12/1993 T-00:03 RSLS-4 STS-51 All/2 114 113
Endeavour 8/18/1994 T-00:02 RSLS-5 STS-68 All/1 181 183
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1 ISS-27 (E8) 02/26/04 03 55 E8 crew: Experiment swaps; early end (Foale, Kaleri)
2 ISS-35 (E12) 11/07/05 05 22 Quest 18: P1 TV; FPP jettison (McArthur, Tokarev)
ISS-36 (E12) 02/03/06 05 43 Suitsat deploy; TUS cable safing, Biorisk
ISS/E12 TOTAL: 11:05
1 ISS-37 (E13) 06/01/06 06 31 Elektron fix; MBS cam R&R (Vinogradov, Williams)
ISS/E13 TOTAL: 6:31
1 ISS-41 (E13) 08/03/06 05 54 E13 crew/Quest 22: Radiator work (Williams, Reiter)
ISS/E13 TOTAL: 05:54
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77 ISS EVAs Total EVA time: 469 59 by 46 U.S., 13 Russians, 1 Japan, 2 Canada,
1 German, 1 French, 1 Swede
* ISS EVA No./Expedition (or shuttle) Crew Updated by William Harwood (12/16/06)
STS-82 TOTAL 33 11
18 EVAs Total EVA TIME: 129 10 By 14 astronauts (*Astronauts with multiple flights)
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17 STS-41B Bruce McCandless 06 00 02/84: Flight test of manned maneuvering unit; famous photo
3 2 EVAs 06 17 of McCandless against limb of Earth
Robert Stewart 05 35
06 02
18 STS-41C George Nelson 03 05 04/84: Solar Max repair spacewalks; MMU fails to grapple SMM;
5 2 EVAs 07 07 Terry Hart uses RMS to capture satellite; EVA-2 repair
James van Hoften 02 59 successful
06 30
19 STS-41G David Leestma 03 29 10/84: First EVA by an American female; orbital refueling tested
6 1 EVA Kathryn Sullivan 03 29
20 STS-51A Joseph Allen 12 14 11/84: Westar, Palapa satellite retrieval and repair; MMUs and
8 2 EVAs stinger used to snag satellites; most visually dramatic EVA
Dale Gardner 12 14 in shuttle history?
21 STS-51D David Griggs 03 10 04/85: First contingency spacewalk; Leasat fails to activate
9 1 EVA Jeffrey Hoffman 03 10
22 STS-51I William Fisher 07 07 08/85: Leasat satellite stranded during STS-51D successfully
11 2EVAs 04 31 hot wired and relaunched
James van Hoften 07 20
04 31
24 STS-37 Jerry Ross 04 27 04/91: 1st post-Challenger EVAs; Gamma Ray Observatory
15 2 EVAs 05 57 antenna freed in contingency work
Jay Apt 04 27
05 57
25 STS-49 Pierre Thuot 03 43 05/92: Intelsat repair mission; 4 EVAs; 2 attempts by Thuot and
19 4 EVAs 05 30 Hieb to capture satellite; 3rd EVA, with Akers, succeeds when
08 29 three astronauts manually grab satellite; 4th EVA by Akers and
Richard Hieb 03 43 Thornton to practice space station construction
05 30
08 29 Total: 33:56
Thomas Akers 08 29
07 45
Kathryn Thornton 07 45
27 STS-57 David Low 05 50 06/93: Eureca antennas stowed; HST tools, techniques, tested
21 1 EVA Jeff Wisoff 05 50
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29 STS-61 Story Musgrave 07 53 12/93: Hubble repair mission; 1st flight with five back-to-back EVAs,
27 5 EVAs 06 47 three by Musgrave and Hoffman, two by Akers and Thornton; all
07 21 mission objectives met
Thomas Akers 06 35
06 50
Jeffrey Hoffman 07 53
06 47 Total EVA time: 35 :26
07 21
Kathryn Thornton 06 35
06 50
31 STS-63 Michael Foale 06 39 02/95: ISS EVA cut short due to low temps in spacesuits
29 1 EVA Bernard Harris 06 39
32 STS-69 Michael Gernhardt 06 46 09/95: Suit modifications tested; low temps no problem
30 1 EVA James Voss 06 46
34 STS-76 Rich Clifford 06 02 03/96: ISS tools tested; experiments mounted on Mir module
33 1 EVA Linda Godwin 06 02
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35 STS-82 Mark Lee 06 42 02/97: HST servicing mission No. 2; 5th spacewalk added to
38 5 EVAs 07 11 repair ripped insulation on telescope; all flight objectives met
05 17
Steven Smith 06 42
07 11
05 17 Total: 33:11
Gregory Harbaugh 07 27
06 34
Joseph Tanner 07 27
06 34
36 STS-86 Scott Parazynski 05 01 10/97: Shuttle-Mir docking mission No. 7; experiment retrieval from
39 1 EVA Vladimir Titov (CIS) Mir; SAFER tests
37 STS-87 Winston Scott 7 43 11-12/97: Manual Spartan-201 retrieval; problems with deploy on
41 2 EVAs 4 59 11/21; ISS crane ops; additional crane tests added in second,
Takao Doi 7 43 unplanned EVA
4 43
38 STS-88 Jerry Ross 07 21 12/7-12/98: First space station assembly EVAs to connect and
44 3 EVAs 07 02 outfit Unity, Zarya modules; highly successful
06 59
James Newman 07 21
07 02 Total: 21:22
06 59
39 STS-96 Tamara Jernigan 07 55 05/29-30/99: 2nd ISS assembly spacewalk; U.S., Russian crane,
45 1 EVA Daniel Barry 07 55 tools mounted
40 STS-103 Steven Smith 08 15 12/22-24/99: Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 3A;
48 3 EVAs 08 08 Six new gyroscopes installed, new computer, fine guidance
John Grunsfeld 08 15 sensor, S-band transmitter, insulation
08 08
Michael Foale 08 15
Claude Nicollier 08 15 Total: 24:33
41 STS-101 James Voss 06 44 05/21-22/00: ISS 2A.2a: Installation of Strela boom on PMA-1;
49 1 EVA Jeffrey Williams 06 44 replacement of early communications antenna on Unity;
insulation on handrails; TV cable
43 STS-92 Leroy Chiao 06 28 10/15-18/00: ISS 3A: EVA crew members staged four back-to-
54 4 EVAs 06 48 back spacewalks to electrically connect Z1 truss; attach PMA-3;
William McArthur 06 28 complete umbilicals connections and other work
06 48
Jeff Wisoff 07 07
06 56 Total: 27:19
Mike Lopez-Alegria 07 07
06 56
44 STS-97 Joseph Tanner 07 33 11/30/00-12/11/00: ISS 4A: Install P6 solar arrays; starboard wing
57 3 EVAs 06 37 deployed during first spacewalk; port array deployed the next
05 10 day after trouble with sprung tension wires on starboard array.
Carlos Noriega 07 33 P6 wired into station system during second EVA; loose array blanket
06 37 fixed during third EVA.
05 10
Total: 19:20
45 STS-98 Thomas Jones 07 34 02/07-18/01: The Destiny lab module was attached to the space
60 3 EVAs 06 50 station with the shuttle Atlantis' RMS; Jones and Curbeam then
06 25 hooked it into the station's electrical system; attached four
Robert Curbeam 07 34 ammonia coolant lines; helped re-attach PMA-2; helped deploy a
06 50 P6 radiator; installed a shutter on the lab's window; inspected the
06 25 P6 four-bar linkage; mounted spare SASA S-band antenna array
on Z1.
Total: 19:49
46 STS-102 James Voss 08 56 03/08-20/01: PMA-3 was moved from the Unity module's nadir hatch
62 2 EVAs Susan Helms 08 56 to the module's port hatch during a spacewalk by Voss and Helms.
They also installed the station robot arm cradle assembly on the
Andrew Thomas 06 21 Destiny module and a cable tray carrying SSRMS video and data.
Paul Richards 06 21 Thomas and Richards: Additional outfitting.
Total: 15:17
47 STS-100 Chris Hadfield 07 10 04/19-30/01: The Canadarm 2 space crane was installed on the hull
63 2 EVAs 07 40 of the U.S. laboratory module, Destiny, during the first of two
Scott Parazynski 07 10 planned spacewalks to install and activate the $900 million crane.
07 40 During the second EVA, Hadfield and Parazynski routed power
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to the arm's power and data grapple fixture, removed a UHF early
comm antenna and mounted a spare DC switching unit on the hull.
All objectives accomplished.
49 STS-105 Daniel Barry 06 16 08/10-22/01: Installation of early ammonia servicer on P6 solar array
68 2 EVAs 05 29 truss; attachment of two MISSE materials exposure experiments on
Patrick Forrester 06 16 ISS airlock. On EVA-2, they ran two 45-foot emergency power
05 29 cables for the S0 truss; also installed handrails on Destiny.
51 STS-109 John Grunsfeld 07 01 03/01/02: HST SM-3B: Installation of two new solar arrays; a
74 5 EVAs Richard Linnehan 06 48 new reaction wheel assembly; power control unit; Advanced
07 20 Camera for Surveys; NICMOS cryocooler
52 STS-114 Stephen Robinson 06 50 7/26/05: First post-Columbia mission: TPS repair DTO, CMG R&R,
77 3 EVAs 07 14 SPAD installation.
06 01
Soichi Noguchi 06 50
07 14
06 01
Dan Burbank
Steve MacLean
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MMT (JSC)
MMT (KSC)
Moscow FD
Launch STA
Entry STA (KSC)
Entry STA (EAFB)
TAL Zaragoza
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Astro Support
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STS-1/Columbia 1981
Soyuz 40 1981
STS-2/Columbia 1981
STS-3/Columbia 1982
Soyuz T-5 1982
Soyuz T-6 1982
STS-4/Columbia 1982
Soyuz T-7 1982
STS-5/Columbia 1982
STS-6/Challenger 1983
Soyuz T-8 1983
STS-7/Challenger 1983
Soyuz T-9 1983
STS-8/Challenger 1983
Soyuz T-10A 1983
STS-9/Columbia 1983
41-B/Challenger 1984
Soyuz T-10B 1984
Soyuz T-11 1984
41-C/Challenger 1984
Soyuz T-12 1984
41-D/Discovery 1984
41-G/Challenger 1984
51-A/Discovery 1984
51-C/Discovery 1985
51-D/Discovery 1985
51-B/Challenger 1985
Soyuz T-13 1985
51-G/Discovery 1985
51-F/Challenger 1985
51-I/Discovery 1985
Soyuz T-14 1985
51-J/Atlantis 1985
61-A/Challenger 1985
61-B/Atlantis 1985
61-C/Columbia 1986
51-L/Challenger 1986
Soyuz T-15 1986
Soyuz TM-2 1987
Soyuz TM-3 1987
Soyuz TM-4 1988
Soyuz TM-5 1988
Soyuz TM-6 1988
STS-26/Discovery 1988
Soyuz TM-7 1988
STS-27/Atlantis 1988
STS-29/Discovery 1989
STS-30/Atlantis 1989
STS-28/Columbia 1989
Soyuz TM-8 1989
STS-34/Atlantis 1989
STS-33/Discovery 1989
STS-32/Columbia 1990
Soyuz TM-9 1990
STS-36/Atlantis 1990
STS-31/Discovery 1990
Soyuz TM-10 1990
STS-41/Discovery 1990
STS-38/Atlantis 1990
STS-35/Columbia 1990
Soyuz TM-11 1990
STS-37/Atlantis 1991
STS-39/Discovery 1991
Soyuz TM-12 1991
STS-40/Columbia 1991
STS-43/Atlantis 1991
STS-48/Discovery 1991
Soyuz TM-13 1991
STS-44/Atlantis 1991
STS-42/Discovery 1992
Soyuz TM-14 1992
STS-45/Atlantis 1992
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Soyuz TM-16 1993
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STS-58/Columbia 1993
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Soyuz TM-19 1994
STS-65/Columbia 1994
STS-64/Discovery 1994
STS-68/Endeavour 1994
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Soyuz TM-32 2001
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STS-116/Discovery 2006
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1 Sergei Avdeyev
748/3
2 Valery Polyakov
679/2
3 Anatoly Solovyev
652/5
4 Sergei Krikalev
625/5
5 Alexander Kaleri
611/4
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6 Victor Afanasyev
556/4
7 Yury Usachev553/4
8 Musa Manarov 541/2
9 Alexander Viktorenko
489/4
10 Nikolai Budarin446/3
11 Yuri Romanenko 430/3
12 Alexander Volkov
392/3
13 Yury Onufrienko389/2
14 Vladimir Titov387/4
15 Gennady Padalka387/2
16 Vasily Tsibliev383/2
17 Valery Korzun382/2
18 Leonid Kizim 375/3
19 Mike Foale (US 374/6
record)
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Duration
136/17:09
Krikalev
147/16:43
117/02:56
Tyurin
181/00:44
171/03:33
Treschev
161/01:17
184/21:47
194/18:35
187/21:17
192/19:02
Days/Flts
748/3
679/2
652/5
625/5
611/4
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553/4
541/2
489/4
446/3
430/3
392/3
389/2
387/4
387/2
383/2
382/2
375/3
374/6
FE/SO
Krikalev
Helms
Tyurin
Whitson
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NASA Sites
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b bit
B&G bridges and gateways
B&P Bid and Proposal
B&PV Boiler and Pressure Vessel
B/L baseline
BAC Boeing Aerospace Company
BAC budget at completion
BAE Boeing Aerospace Engineering
BAFO best and final offer
BAG Baseline Advisory Group
BB breadboard
BBC Bolt Bus Controller
BC bus controller
BCD baseline control/configuration document
BCD Budget Change Document
BCDU Battery Charge/Discharge Unit
BCE beamsplitter control electronics
BCOP Bilateral Crew Operations Panel
BCR battery charge regulator
BCR Budget Change Report
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C centigrade, Celsius
C&C command and control
C&DH Command & Data Handling
C&M control and monitor
C&PCC core and payload control centers
C&T Communications and Tracking
C&TS Communications and Tracking System
C&W caution and warning
C-MPAC cupola MPAC
c.d.t. central daylight time
c.s.t. central standard time
C/C command/control
C/D countdown
C/O checkout
C/S/T cost/schedule/technical
C/V cooperative vehicle
c2 command and control
C3 command, control, and communications
C3I command, control, communications, and intelligence
CA control architecture
CA cost account
CA customer accommodations
CAA computer-aided analysis
CACTIS Change and Commitment Tracking Information System
CAD computer-aided design
CADD computer-aided design and drafting
CADU channel access data unit
CAE computer-aided engineering
CAG Commercial Advocacy Group
CAGE Commercial and Government Entity
CAI computer-aided instruction
CAIS Computer-Aided Instructional System
CAIT computer-aided instructional trainers
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CE current estimate
CE&IS combined elements and integrated system
CEA control electronic assembly
CEA Customer Expectation Agreement
CEB Change Evaluation Board
CEDRID Cargo Element Design Requirement Input Document
CEI contract end item
CEIS combined elements and integrated systems
CELSS closed environmental life support system
CEMS crew and equipment mobility system
CEO Configuration Engineering Office
CER cost estimating relationship
CERS crew emergency rescue system
CERS crew equipment retrieval system
CERT certification
CERV crew emergency return vehicle
CETA crew and equipment translation assembly
CETF Critical Evaluation Task Force
CETTR crew and equipment translation techniques and routing
CEV combined elements verification
CEV common element verification
CEVT combined element verification and testing/training
CEWG Crew Exchange and Training Working Group
CF Centrifuge Facility
CF completion form
CFC chlorinated fluorocarbon
CFDB crew functions data base
CFE contractor-furnished equipment
CFM candle flames in microgravity
cfm cubic feet per minute
CFP conceptual flight profile
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CFS cryogenic fluid storage
CFT crew factors
CFU colony forming unit
CG center of gravity
CGBA Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile
CGS Columbus Ground System
CGSP crystal growth and solidification processes
CGTG Crystal Growth Technology Group
CHAMPS characteristics of hardware assemblies & mission-build
planning system
CHeCS Crew Health Care Systems
CHIA Cargo Handling Interface Adapter
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CM countermeasures
cm centimeter
CMA common MPAC adapter
CMA control and monitor application
CMAIT Configuration Management Analysis and Integration Team
CMAM Commercial Middeck Augmentation Module
CMC Contract Management Command
CMCD CIDSC Master Configuration Document
CMCS Configuration Management and Control System
CMD command
CMD/CTL command/control
CMDB control and monitor display builder
CMDE CMDM executor
CMDM Control and Monitor Display manager
CMDS Configuration Management Data System
CMG control moment gyro
CMILP consolidated maintenance, inventory, and logistics planning
CMIP Common Management Information Protocols
CMIS Common/Configuration Management Information System
CMO Configuration/Contract Management Office
CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductor
CMP Configuration Management Plan
CMP Command Monitor Panel
CMPL Commercial Materials Processing Lab
CMRS CHeCS Medical Restraint System
CMRS Crew Medical Restraint System
CMS control and monitor subsystem
CMSP Configuration Management Screening Panel
CMT configuration management tool
CMT crew maintenance time
CNES The French Space Agency
CNS computer network system
CNTRL central. control
CO carbon monoxide
CO Contracting Officer
CO2 carbon dioxide
COAS coarse/crew optical alignment sight
COB cargo onboard
COCOMO cost constructive model
COD Center Operations Directorate
CoF construction of facility
COF Columbus Operating Facility
CoFR certification of flight readiness
COL Contracting Officer Letter
COM communications
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DB diode box
DB dry bulb temperature
DB display builder
dB decibel
DBA data base administrator
DBM data base management
DBME data base management element
DBMS data base management system
DBN Data Bus Network
DBS direct broadcast sounder/satellite
DC direct current
DC docking compartment
DCA document content architecture
DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency
DCAM Dialysis Crystallization Apparatus for Microgravity
DCCAS Dry Cargo Carrier Attach System
DCE data communications equipment
DCE dual cycle ergometer
DCLS data collection and location system
DCMC Defense Contract Management Command
DCN document change notice
DCR Design Certification Review
DCS decompression sickness
DCS Digital Communications Subsystem
DCSU DC switching unit
DCT direct cosine transform
DCU dedicated control unit
DD/D data dictionary/directory
DDCU DC-to-DC converter unit
DDF Display Data File
DDF Display Definition File
DDP Design Decision Package
DDP deliverable data package
DDR Detailed Design Review
DDRM Data, Document and Records Management
DDT&E design, development, test, and evaluation
DDT&V detail design test and verification
DDTS digital data transmission system
DDTS dynamic docking test system
DDU data display unit
DE design engineering
DE dose equivalent
DEC data entry clerk
DED Data Element Dictionary
deg degree
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DEL delivery
DEMUX demultiplexer
DES Digital Encryption Standard
DESC Defense Electronic Supply Center
DEV development
DF development flight
DFD data flow diagram
DFI development flight instrumentation
DFRF Dryden Flight Research Facility
DFRR Detailed Functional Requirements Review
DG data group
DHC data handling center
DHF data handling function
dia diameter
DID data item description
DIDB Drawing Index/Informantion data base
DlET design-to-cost information, estimating, and tracking
DIF Data Interface Facility
DIF data interchange format
DIL Deliverable Items List
DIO discrete input/output
DIPEC Defense Industrial Plan Equipment Center
DISU dual input switching unit
DIT Development Integration Test
DIT Dynamic Integrated Test
DITFAC Development, Integration & Test Facility
DIU data interface unit
DKC Design Knowledge Capture
DKSS design knowledge support system
DKSSEC design knowledge support system electronic catalog
DL data discrepancy list
DLI Defense Language Institute
DLA drive lock assembly
DLSC Defense Logistics Service Center
DM Dialog manager
DM docking module
DM&P Data Management and Processing
DMA direct memory access
DMA Digraph Matrix Analysis
DMAP direct matrix absorption program
DMATE Delta MDM application test equipment
DMCS data management and control system
DMS Data Management System
DMS data management simulator
DMS-R Data Management System - Russian
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e electron
E&I Engineering and Integration
E&PD Engineering and Product Definition
E(r) Earth radius
e.d.t. Eastem Daylight Time
E/E electrical/electronics
E/I end item
E/W East/West
EA Integrated Electronics/Equipment Assembly
EAC engineering analysis capability
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F flight
F forward
F Fahrenheit
F-MPAC fixed multipurpose application console
F/W firmware
FAB flight assignment baseline
FABRS Fabrication Reporting System
FAC facility
FACI First Article Configuration Inspection
FACTS FMEA/CIL tracking system
FAM functional area manager
FAO Flight Activity Officer
FAP Flight Activity Plan
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation
FAST flexible Ada simulation tool
FAST folding articulated square truss
FAX facsimile transmission
FBC full body cleansing
FBM fleet ballistic missile
FBT Feedback Technology
FC flight control
FC fuel cell
FCA flow control assembly
FCA Functional Configuration Audit
FCA Funding Constraint Assessment
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g gravity
G giga (one billion)
g Acceleration of Gravity
g gram
G&A General and Administrative
G&C Guidance and Control
G&N Guidance and Navigation
G.IM Geometric Mathematical Model
G.m.t. Greenwich Mean Time
G/L greater than/less than
GaAIAs gallium aluminum arsenide
GaAs gallium arsenide
GANE Global Positioning System (GPS) Attitude & Navigation
Experiment
GAO General Accounting Office
GASMAP Gas Analysis System for Metabolic Analysis of Physiology
gb gigabit
GBD generation breakdown
GBF Gravitational Biology Facility
GBL Generation Breakdown List
gbps gigabits per second
GC/IMS gas chromatograph/ion mobility spectrometry
GC/MS Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
GCA gas conditioning assembly
GCC Ground Control Center
GCE Ground Control Equipment
GCR Galactic Cosmic Radiation/Ray
GCS Ground Control Station
GCSD Government Communications Systems Department
GCT Growth Core Team
GCTC Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
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H hydrogen
H/C Hand Controller
H/W hardware
HA hazard analysis
HA/HP Height of Apogee/Height of Perigee
HAB habitation module
HABT Habitability Technology
HAD heat acquisition devices
HAL High-Order Algorithmic Language
HAL hyperbaric airlock
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IP intermediate processor
IP Internal Protocol
IP International Partner
IP Internet Protocol
IPB Illustrated Parts Breakdown
IPC Information Planning Council
IPC Interprocess Communications
IPCL Instrumentation Program and Command List
IPD Integrated Product Development
IPG Information Planning Group
IPIR Increment Payload Integration Requirements
IPL Initial Program Load
IPM Interprocessor Multiplexer
IPPDR Interim Program Preliminary Design Review
IPRD Integrated Payloads Requirements Document
IPRM Integrated Performance and Risk Management
IPS Instrument Pointing System
IPSSD Integrated Program Scheduling Standard Document
IPT Integrated Product Team
IPT/AIT Integrated Product Team/Analysis and Integration Team
IPTA Integrated Propulsion Test Article
IR ionizing radiation
IR infrared
IR ionizing radiation
IR&D Independent Research and Developrnent
IRB Inertial Reference Base
IRB Instrumentation/Relay Board
IRD interface requirement document
IRDS Information Resources Dictionary System
IRE Ionizing Radiation Effects
IREC Ionizing Radiation Effects Compatibility
IRGW Intermediate Rate Gateway
IRI International Reference Ionosphere
IRM Information Resource Management
IRM integrated risk management
IRN Interface Revision Notice
IRP Integrated Resource Plan
IRR Interface Requirements Review
IRS Integrated Resource and Schedule
IRU In-flight Refill Unit
IRU Inertial Reference Unit
IRU IVA Replacement Unit
IRWG Interface Requirements Working Group
IS Imaging Spectrometer
IS Information Systems
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K thousand
k kilo
K-Band Code Elements per Second in Thousands
K-SIM K-band Simulation
KB keel bending
KB keyboard
kb kilobit
KBE knowledge based executive
kbps kilobits per second
kbps kilobytes per second
KBS knowledged based system
kbvte kilobyte
kcal kilocalorie
keV kiloelectronvolt
kg kilogram
kHz kilohertz (kilocycles per second)
KhSC Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
KIPS thousand (kilo) instructions per second
km kilometers
KNOMES Knowledge-Based Maintenance Expert System
KOPS thousands of operations per second
KP key personnel
kPa kilopascals
Kr krypton
Kristall One of the modules of the Mir Orbiting Station
KSA Ku-Band Single Access
KSAF K-band, Single Access Forward
KSAR K-band, Single Access Return
KSC Kennedy Space Center
KSCAP KSC area permit
KT Keel Torsion
Ku Frequency Sub-Band
Kvant One of the modules of the Mir Orbiting Station
kVA kilovolt ampere
kW kilowatt
kWe kilowatt (electrical)
kWh kilowatt hour
L launch
L&ES Laser and Electronic System
L&M Logistics and Maintenance
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M mega
M million
m meter
M&CE Manifesting and Cargo Engineering
M&D maintenance and depot
M&I management and integration
M&O maintenance and operations
M&P materials and processes
M&T manufacturing and test
m.d.t. Mountain Daylight Time
M/D meteoroid/debris
M/OD meteoroid/orbital debris
m/s meters per second
m/s/s meters per second per second
MA multiple access
MAA metal aerosol analyzer
MAAPP manufacturing assessment and planning package
MAAR Monthly Associate Administrator's Report
MAC Maintenance Allocation Chart
MAC Materials and Coatings
MAC Maximum Allowable Concentration
MAC Message Authentication Code
MAF Master Audit File
MAF multiple-access forward
MAGIK Manipulator Analysis, Graphics, and Integrated Kinematics
MALP Master Alarm Light Panel
MANM Mir Audible Noise Measurement
MAPS Maintainability Analysis and Prediction System
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mi mile
MIA Multiplex Interface Adapter
MIB medical information bus
MIB Multilayer Interconnection Board
MIC Management Information Center
MIC microphone
MIC microwave integrated circuit
MICS Material Inventory Control System
MIDAS materials in devices as superconductors
MIE modal identification experiment
MIF Module Integration Facility
mil thousandths of an inch
MIL-HDBK military handbook
MIL-STD military standard
MILSPEC military specification
MlLSTAR Military Strategic/Tactical and Relay Satellite
MIM microgravity isolation measurement
MIMO multiple input, multiple output
min minimum
min minute
MIO Management Integration Office
MIP Maintainability Implementation Plan
MIP Mission Integration Plan
MIPS million instructions per second
MIPS Mir Interface to Payload Systems
MIR Mission Integration Review
MIRR Material Inspection and Receiving Report
MIS Management Information System
MIS Master Integrated Schedule
MIS Medical Information System
MiSDE Mir Structural Dynamics Experiment
MISN Master Integrated Schedule/Network
MITA manufacturing integration test assembly
MIUL Material Identification Usage List
MLA multilinear array
MLA multispectral linear array
MLE maximum likelihood estimation
MLI multilayer insulation
MLP Monitored Line Program
MLR mass loss rate
MLS Microwave Limb Sounder
mm millimeters
MM Momentum Management
MM/OD micrometeoroid/orbital debris
MMA module manager application
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n neutron
N Newton(s)
N/A not applicable/available
N/C no change
N2 nitrogen
NAC NASA Advisory Council
NACAIT Network and Communications Analysis and Integration Team
NAS node avionics simulator
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASCOM NASA Communications (network)
NASDA National Space Development Agency of Japan
NASP National Aerospace Plane
NASTRAN NASA Structural Analysis Computer Program
NB navigation base
NB neutral buoyancy
NBF Neutral Buoyancy Facility
NBL Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
NBS National Bureau of Standards
NBS Neutral Buoyancy Simulator
NBT Neutral Buoyancy Test
NC numerically controlled
NC 1 First Phasing Maneuver (Orbiter rendezvous maneuver)
NC(Curve) noise criteria curve
NCC Network Control Center
NCC Nominal Corrective Combination Maneuver
NCCDS Network Control Center Data System
NCD number column density
NCEN Network Compatibility Engineer
NCG noncondensible gas
NCn nth Phasing Maneuver
NCRPM National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurement
NCS Node Control Software
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p pressure
P platform
p proton
P port
P&SA Payload and Servicing Accommodations
P&W particle and waves
P-MPAC Portable Multipurpose Application Console
P-V power voltage
p.d.t. Pacific Daylight Time
p.s.t. Pacific Standard Time
P/L payload
P/N part number
PA power amplifier
PA Product Assurance
PAAR Product Assurance Action Report
PAB Parts Advisory Board
PABF Precision Air Bearing Floor
PAD program approval document
PADS Product Assurance Data System
PAE Payload Attached Equipment
PAFAM Performance and Failure Assessment Monitor
PAH Payload Accommodations Handbook
PAI payload analytical integration
PAIM Product Assurance Integration Manager
PAIT Program Analysis and Integration Team
PALS Program Automated Library System
PAM Payload Assist Module
PAM Payload Accommodation Manager
PAP Payload Activity Plan
PAPL Program Approved Parts List
PAPR Product Assurance Program Representative
PARS Property Accountability Record System
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q quality factor
QA quality assurance
QAI Quality Assurance Instruction
QD quick disconnect
QDR Quality Discrepancy Report
QF Quality Factor
QM/FM qualification model/flight model
QML qualified manufacturing line
QMR Quick Medical Reference
QPSK Quadriphase Shift Key
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QS Quality System
QSA Qualification Site Approval
QSD Quality Support/Systems Division
QTA Qualification Test Article
QTP Qualification Test/Procedure
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s segment
S Starboard truss segment
S0 Starboard truss segment 0
S&E sensors and effectors
S&M structures and mechanisms
S&MA safety and mission assurance
S&S status and scheduling
S&TC Science and Technology Center
S&U science and utilization
S-SIM S-Band Simulator
S/C spacecraft
S/DTA structural/dedicated test article
S/G space-to-ground
S/M structures/mechanisms
S/N serial number
S/S subsystem
S/W software
SA selective availability
SA single access
SA Solar Array
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SA supplemental assembly
SAA South Atlantic anomaly
SAA subsystem architecture and analysis
SAAM Science and Applications Mission
SAB Space Applications Board
SABB solar array blanket boxes
SAE Solar Array Experiment
SAEPL Space Station Approved EEE Parts List
SAES Solar Array Electrical Simulator
SAFER simplified aid for EVA rescue
SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SAI Systems Application Integration
SAIS Science & Application Information System
SAM servicing and maintenance
SAP Service Access Point
SAR Safety Analysis Report
SAR software architecture review
SAR specific absorption rate
SAR synthetic aperture radar
SARJ solar alpha rotary joint
SAS Solar Array Simulator
SAS Statistical Analysis System
SASE Specific Application Software Elements
SAT Servicing Aid Tool
SAT single access transmitter
SATE SDP application test environment
SATS Satellite Automated Test System
SATS Station Accommodation Test Set
SB S-band
SB small business
SBA Small Business Administration
SBA space-based antenna
SBAR space-based antenna range
SBB Satellite Busy Box
SBF single barrier failure
SBL space-based laser
SC segment control
SC stage/system configuration
SC station commander
SCA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
SCARA schedule, cost, and risk assessment
SCAT scatterometer
SCAT System Commonality Analysis Tool
SCBA self contained breathing apparatus
SCD specification control drawing
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SF standard form
SFA Small Fine Arm
SFCA System Flow Control Assembly
SFDF Station Flight Data File
SFDR System Functional Design Review
SFE smart front-end
SFE Static Feed Electrolysis
SFF Small Formation Flyer
SFHe superfluid helium
SFM Service Facility Manipulator
SFP single failure point
SFP Summary Flight Plan
SFPS Single Failure Point Summary
SFTA software fault tolerance analysis
SFU Space Flyer Unit
SGAC space-to-ground antenna controller
SGANT space-to-ground antenna
SGBSP space-to-ground baseband signal processor
SGE Strain Gage Electronics
SGL space-to-ground link
SHA system hazard analysis
SHAPES Spatial, High-Accuracy Position Encoding Sensor
SHARE Station Heatpipe Advanced Radiator Element
SHF S-band high frequency
SI science instrument
SI solar inertial/intensity/international
SI International System of Units
SI&A Systems Integration and Avionics
SI&T Software Integration & Test
SIA solar inertial attitude
SIA standard interface adapter
SIA Station Interface Adapter
SIB simulation interface buffer
SIB Systems Integration Board
SIC Standard Industrial Classification
SIC Standard Interface Connector
SICDH Scientific Instrument Computer and Data Handling
SID selected item drawing
SID Simulator Interface Device
SID standard interface docurnent
SIDD Servicing Implementation Definition Docurnent
SIF Software Integration Facility
SIF System Integration Facility
SIGAda special interest group on Ada
SIL Speech Interference Level
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SR Status Review
SR System Requirement
SR&QA Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance
SRAM Static Random Access Memory
SRB Software Review Board
SRB Solid Rocket Booster
SRC Specimen Research Centrifuge
SRD System Requirements Document
SRDCS Simulation Reconfiguration Data Collection Subsystem
SRM Safety, Reliability, and Maintainability
SRM Solid Rocket Motor
SRM&QA Safety, Reliability, Maintainability and Quality Assurance
SRMS Shuttle Remote Manipulator System
SRP Safety Review Panel
SRP standard repair procedure
SRR Software Requirements Review
SRR System Requirements Review
SRS software requirements specification
SRS supplemental reboost system
SRT Station Redesign Team
SRU shop replaceable unit
SS space segment
SS Space Station/Shuttle
SS sun sensor
SS System Specification
SSA S-Band Single Access
SSA Space Structure Assembly
SSA Space Suit Assembly
SSAD Structured Systems Analysis & Design
SSAF S-Band, Single Access Forward
SSAIAF Space Station Automated Integration and Assembly Facility
SSAIT Space Station Analysis and Integration Team
SSAR S-Band, Single Access Return
SSAR Stereo Synthetic Aperture Radar
SSAS segment-to-segment attach system
SSAS solid sorbent air sampler
SSAT Space Station assembly technology
SSATA Space Station airlock test article
SSB Source Selection Board
SSBRP Space Station Biological Research Project
SSC Space Station Complex
SSCB Space Station Control Board
SSCBD Space Station Control Board Directive
SSCC Space Station Control Center
SSCE Space Station core equipment
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T temperature
T&A test and adjust
T&C telemetry and command
T&DA tracking and data acquisition
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TLM telemetry
TLP transmission level point
TLV threshold limit value
TM task/technical manager
TM technical manual
TMA Technical Management Area
TMDE Test. Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment
TMG thermal model generator
TMIS Technical and Management Information System
TML total mass loss
TMM Thermal Math Model
TMMCH/Y total mean maintenance crew hours per year
TMS task/technical/test management system
TMS teleoperator maneuvering system
TMS test measurement system
TMS thermal maneuvering system
TN TDRSS Network
TO task order
TO technical officer
TOC Test Operation Center
TOC total organic carbon
TOL Telemetry Object List
TOMRS Test, Operations and Maintenance Requirements and
Specifications
TOMS Task Order Management System
TOP Tactical Operations Plan
TOPCAT total program cost analysis tool
TOS Transfer Orbit Stage
TP teleprocessing
TPA Test Planning Analysis
TPC technical performance criteria
TPC Telemetry Preprocessing Computers
TPEP Transition Program Execution Plan
TPF Terminal Phase Final
TPI Terminal Phase Initiation
TPITS Two-Phase Integrated Thermal System
TPM Technical Performance Measurement
TPM Technical Program Measurement
TPM terminal phase midcourse
TPP top program problem
TPR Team of Primary Responsibility
TPR Terminal Phase Rendezvous
TPS Technical Planning Sheet
TPS test preparation sheet
TPS Thermal Protection System
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U/S user/station
UBA unpressurized berthing adapter
UBIC Universal Bus Interface Controller
UBM unpressurized berthing mast/mechanism
UCD urine collection device
UCP Utilization Control Panel
UCTR UHF communication transmitter-receiver
UDFR user defined functional requirements
UDM Universal Docking Module
UDM unpressurized docking mast
UDMH unsymmetrical dimethyldrazine
UDS utility distribution system
UE user equipment
UF utility/utilization flight
UHF ultrahigh frequency
UI user integration/interface
UIC User Identification Code
UIDB user interface data base
UIE User Interface Environment
UIL User/Utility Interface Language
UIS User Interface System
ULBC universal local bus controller
ULC unpressurized logistics carrier
ULCAS unpressurized logistics carrier attach system
ULE unpressulized logistics element
ULT ultimate (loads)
UMA umbilical mechanism assembly
UMDB User Mission Data Base
UNSR Unclassified National Security Related
UOC Usable On Codes
UOF User Operations Facility
UOF utilization outfitting
UOIF User Operations Interface Function
UOP utility outlet port
UOP Utilization Operations Panel
UOS User Operations Support
UOTAT Utilization, Operations, and Training Assessment Team
UPDM unpressuIized docking mast
UPN Unique Project Number
UPR Unit Performance Record
UPS uninterrupted power supply
URD User Requirements Document
URE user range error
URL Uniform Resource Locator
U.S. United States
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US upper stage
US user segment
USA United States of America
USAF United States Air Force
USE User Support Environment
USENET User Network
USGS United States Ground Segment
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USL U.S. Laboratory
USOC U.S. Science Operations Center
USOS U.S. on-orbit segment
USS user services support
UT universal time
UTA utility transfer assembly
UTC Universal Time Coordinated
UTDF Universal Tracking Data Format
UTF Utilization Training Facility
UTS ultimate tensile strength
UVR ultraviolet radiation
UWTF Underwater Test Facility
V volts
V&V verification and validation
V-BAR Orbit Velocity-Vector
VA vehicle analysis
VAB Vehicle Assembly Building
VAC volts (Alternating Current)
VAC Variance at Completion
VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base
VAIT Vehicle Analysis and Integration Team
VAMS Vibroacoustic Monitoring System
VAPEPS vibroacoustic payload environment prediction system
VAS Validation System
VAT Value Added Tax
VATA Vertical Assembly and Test Area
VATF Vertical Assembly Test Facility
VAX Virtual Address Extension
VBSP video baseband signal processor
VC virtual channel
VC voice circuit
VCA virtual channel access
VCB Vehicle Control Board
VCD vapor-compression distillation
VCDU Virtual Channel Data Unit
VCG vapor crystal growth
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W watt
w/o without
WAD Work Authorization Document
WAN Wide Area Network
WB wideband
WBGT wet bulb globe temperature
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WCS Waste Control System
W/D Wet/Dry Index
WETF Weightless Environment Training Facility
WF wide field
WFI water for injection
WFPC Wide Field Planetary Camera
WG working group
WGA waste gas assembly
WI wave injector
WICAT World Interactive Computer-Assisted Training
WIRRS Waste Ice Release and Removal System
WISP Waves in Space Plasma
WL west longitude
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WM Waste Management
WM Window Manager
WMC Waste Management Compartment
WO work order
WORM write once read many/memory
WPE weight, power, EVA
WR weather radar
WRM water recovery management
WS Windsat
WS workstation
WSTF White Sands Test Facility
wt weight
WTR Western Test Range
William Harwood
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STS-116
STS-1 Columbia Launch: 4/12/81, 7 a.m. EST. Launch try on 4/10 postponed by GPC timing miscompare
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Landing: 04/14/81, 01:20:57 p.m. EST, Runway 23 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 37. Rollout distance: 8,993 feet. Rollout time:
60 seconds. Touchdown speed: 190 knots.
STS-2 Columbia Launch: 11/12/81, 10:10 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 10/9; delayed by forward RCS spill; launch try 11/4 scrubbed by fuel
2 cell readings, then APU lube oil contamination; launch 11/12 delayed 2 hours, 40 minutes to replace MDM; launch delayed an
additional 10 minutes for systems review.
Landing: 11/14/81, 04:23:11 p.m. EDT, Runway 23 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 37. Rollout distance: 7,711 feet. Rollout time:
50 seconds. Touchdown speed: 186 knots. Mission shortened by two days due to fuel cell failure.
STS-3 Columbia Launch: 3/22/82, 11 a.m. EST. Launch delayed 1 hour by GSE nitrogen heater.
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Landing: 03/30/82, 11:04:46 a.m. EST, Runway 17 (lakebed), White Sands. Landing orbit: 130. Rollout distance: 13,737 feet.
Rollout time: 84 seconds. Touchdown speed: 233 knots. Columbia diverted to White Sands before launch due to wet runways at
EAFB. Mission extended one day due to high winds at White Sands. Brake damage and major dust contamination.
STS-6 Launch: 4/4/83, 1:30 p.m. EST. Launch originally set for 1/20; delayed by SSME No. 1 LH2 leak after 12/18/82 FRF; second FRF
Challenger 6 confirmed leaks, all three engines replaced; Additional delay due to contamination of TDRS-A satellite.
Landing: 04/09/83, 01:53:42 p.m. EST, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 81. Rollout distance: 7,180 feet. Rollout time:
49 seconds. Touchdown speed: 180 knots.
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Landing: 06/24/83, 09:56:59 a.m. EDT, Runway 15 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 98. Rollout distance: 10,450 feet. Rollout time:
75 seconds. Touchdown speed: 200 knots. Bad weather blocks planned KSC landing. EAFB landing delayed by two revs.
STS-8 Launch: 8/30/83, 2:32 a.m. EDT. Launch delayed 17 minutes by thunderstorms.
Challenger 8
Landing: 09/06/83, 03:40:43 a.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 98. Rollout distance: 9,371 feet. Rollout time:
50 seconds. Touchdown speed: 196 knots. First night landing.
STS-9 Columbia Launch: 11/28/83, 11 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 9/30; delayed 28 days to replace suspect SRB nozzle.
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Landing: 12/08/83, 06:47:24 p.m. EST, Runway 17 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 167. Rollout distance: 8,456 feet. Rollout time:
53 seconds. Touchdown speed: 204 knots. One-day extension for bonus science. Landing delayed eight hours due to failures of GPC
1, GPC 2 and IMU 1. During touchdown, two APUs caught fire.
STS-41B Launch: 2/3/84, 8 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 1/29; delayed 5 days to replace APUs.
Challenger 10
Landing: 02/11/84, 07:15:55 a.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC (1). Landing orbit: 128. Rollout distance: 10,815 feet. Rollout time: 67
seconds. Touchdown speed: 198 knots. First KSC landing.
STS-41D Launch: 8/30/84, 8:42 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 6/25; scrubbed at T-9 by BFS failure. An RSLS abort 6/26 caused major
Discovery 12 manifest change (payload changed to include elements of 41D and 41F; 41F mission was canceled). Third launch try 8/29 delayed
one day by MEC problem. Final countdown delayed 6 minutes, 50 seconds by private plane.
Landing: 09/05/84, 09:37:54 a.m. EDT, Runway 17 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 97. Rollout distance: 10,275. Rollout time: 60
seconds. Touchdown speed: 216 knots. First flight of Discovery.
STS-51A Launch: 11/8/84, 7:15 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 11/7; delayed one day by high wind shear.
Discovery 14
Landing: 11/16/84, 06:59:56 a.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC (3). Landing orbit: 127. Rollout distance: 9,461 feet. Rollout time: 58
seconds. Touchdown speed: 194 knots. Two communications satellites returned to Earth for repairs.
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STS-51C Launch: 1/24/85, 2:50 p.m. EST. Launch originally set for 1/23; delayed by freezing weather.
Discovery 15
Landing: 01/27/85, 04:23:23 p.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC (4). Landing orbit: 49. Rollout distance: 7,352 feet. Rollout time: 50
seconds. Touchdown speed: 179 knots. Flight shortened one day due to weather. DOD mission.
STS-51D Launch: 4/12/85, 8:59 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 3/19; delayed to 3/28 because of STS-51E remanifest. Delayed another
Discovery 16 15 days to repair left payload bay door. Final countdown delayed 55 minutes by ship in SRB danger zone.
Landing: 04/19/85, 08:54:28 a.m., Runway 33, KSC (5). Landing orbit: 110. Rollout distance: 10,430 feet. Rollout time: 63
seconds. Touchdown speed: 209 knots. Extensive brake damage, blown main landing gear tire. Future flights baselined for EAFB.
Two day extendion for Syncom repair bid.
STS-51B Launch: 04/29/85, 12:02:18 p.m. EDT. First manifested as STS-51E. After a timing problem with TDRS-B satellite, shuttle rolled
Challenger 17 back and 51E was canceled. Remanifested as STS-51B. Launch delayed two minutes 18 seconds by an LPS failure.
Landing: 05/06/85, 12:11:04 p.m. EDT, Runway 17 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 111. Rollout distance: 8,317 feet. Rollout time:
59 seconds. Touchdown speed: 207 knots.
STS-51F Launch: 7/29/85, 5 p.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 7/12; RSLS abort at T-3 seconds delayed liftoff 17 days. Final countdown
Challenger 19 was held up 1 hour, 37 minutes due to TMBU uplink problem. During ascent, SSME No. 1 shut down in first ATO.
Landing: 08/06/85, 03:45:26 p.m. EDT, Runway 23 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 127. Rollout distance: 8,569 feet. Rollout time:
55 seconds. Touchdown speed: 204 knots. Mission extended 17 orbits to gather additional Spacelab science data after ATO.
STS-51I Launch: 8/27/85, 6:58 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 8/24; delayed at T-5 by thunderstorms.
Discovery 20
Landing: 09/03/85, 09:15:43 a.m. EDT, Runway 23 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 112. Rollout distance: 6,100 feet. Rollout time:
42 seconds. Touchdown speed: 175 knots. Flight shortened one day due to earlier -than-planned launch of AUSSAT satellite (crew
error).
STS-51J Atlantis Launch: 10/3/85, 11:16 a.m. EDT. Launch delayed 22 minutes, 30 seconds by faulty "on" indication on SSME LH2 prevalve.
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Landing: 10/07:85, 01:00:08 p.m. EDT, Runway 23 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 64. Rollout distance: 8,056 feet. Rollout time:
65 seconds. Touchdown speed: 187 knots. DOD mission.
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STS-61C Launch: 1/12/86, 6:55 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 12/18; delayed one day by work to close out the aft. 12/19 attempt failed
Columbia 24 at T-14 seconds by SRB HPU overspeed (later determined to be a false reading). Launch reset for 1/6; delayed at T-31 seconds by
accidental draining of LO2; Launch try 1/7 failed at T-9 by TAL weather. Launch reset for 1/9, then delayed 24 hours by MLP LOX
sensor lodged in SSME No. 2 prevalve. Launch attempt 1/10 delayed by heavy rain.
Landing: 01/18/86, 08:58:51 a.m. EST, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 98. Rollout distance: 10,202 feet. Rollout time:
59 seconds. Touchdown speed: 217 knots. Planned KSC landing. Re-entry moved from 1/17 to 1/16 to improve orbiter turnaround
after numerous launch delays. Entry attempts on 1/16 and 1/17 were scrubbed by weather. Third and final KSC attempt scrubbed
on 1/18. Flight extended one orbit to reach EAFB.
STS-51L Launch: 1/28/86, 11:38 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 1/22, but slipped to 1/23 and 1/24 due to 61C problems. Launch then
Challenger 25 delayed to 1/25 by TAL weather. Launch team unable to accommodate a 1/25 morning launch, prompting another 24 hour delay.
Before fueling, launch team ordered another 24 hour delay, to 1/27, due to expected bad weather (it didn't happen). Launch 1/27
delayed one day by problems closing the shuttle hatch. By the time it was closed, RTLS winds were out of limits. The final
countdown was delayed 2 hours by MLP HIM replacement. Orbiter was destroyed 73 seconds after liftoff by right side SRB burn
through.
Landing: N/A
STS-26 Launch: 9/29/88, 11:37 a.m. EDT. Launch delayed 1 hour, 38 minutes by blown fuses in spacesuit cooling fans and by lighter-than-
Discovery 26 expected winds aloft.
Landing: 10/03/88, 12:37:11 p.m. EDT, Runway 17 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 64. Rollout distance: 7,451 feet. Rollout time:
49 seconds. Touchdown speed: 195 knots.
STS-27 Atlantis Launch: 12/2/88, 9:31 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 12/1; postponed by high winds and cloud cover.
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Landing: 12/06/88, 06:36:11 p.m. EST, Runway 17 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: ??. Rollout distance: 7,123 feet. Rollout time:
43 seconds. Touchdown speed: 204 knots. DOD mission.
STS-29 Launch: 3/13/89, 9:57 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 2/18; delayed to replace suspect LOX turbopumps and a faulty MEC. Final
Discovery 28 countdown delayed 1 hour, 50 minutes by fog and high winds aloft.
Landing: 03/18/89, 09:35:51 a.m. EST, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 80. Rollout distance: 9,339 feet. Rollout time:
53 seconds. Touchdown speed: 204 knots.
STS-30 Atlantis Launch: 5/4/89, 2:47 p.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 4/28; delayed at T-31 by LH2 recirculation pump problem and a leak in a
29 4-inch hydrogen line. Final countdown delayed 59 minutes by clouds.
Landing: 05/08/89, 03:43:27 p.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 65. Rollout distance: 10,295 feet. Rollout time:
64 seconds. Touchdown speed: 204 knots.
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STS-28 Launch: 8/8/89, 8:37 a.m. EDT. This was a classified countdown and details are not known. Some sources indicate this launch was
Columbia 30 on time.
Landing: 08/13/89, 09:37:08 a.m. EDT, Runway 17 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: ??. Rollout distance: 6,015 feet. Rollout time:
46 seconds. Touchdown speed: 158 knots.
STS-34 Atlantis Launch: 10/18/89, 12:54 p.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 10/12; delayed to 10/17 by SSME No. 2 controller; delayed to 10/18
31 by RTLS weather. Final countdown delayed 4 minutes by TAL weather.
Landing: 10/23/89, 12:33 p.m. EDT, Runway 23 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 80. Rollout distance: 9,677 feet. Rollout time: 60
seconds. Touchdown speed: 205 knots.
STS-33 Launch: 11/22/89, 7:24 p.m. EST. Launch originally set for 11/20; delayed two days to replace a suspect SRB IEA.
Discovery 32
Landing: 11/27/89, 07:30:16 p.m. EST, Runway 4 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: ??. Rollout distance: 7,764 feet. Rollout time:
46 seconds. Touchdown speed: 192 knots. Flight extended one day due to weather. DOD mission.
STS-32 Launch: 1/9/90, 7:35 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 12/18; delayed to 1/8 by pad problems; Delayed to 1/9 by weather.
Columbia 33
Landing: 01/20/90, 04:35:37 a.m. EST, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 172. Rollout distance: 10,731 feet. Rollout
time: 62 seconds. Touchdown speed: 209 knots. One-day extension due to weather. Longest shuttle flight to date.
STS-36 Atlantis Launch: 2/28/90, 2:50 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 2/22; delayed to 2/23, then 2/24 and finally, 2/25 because of crew illness
34 (commander) and weather. 2/25 attempt scrubbed by RSO computer malfunction; weather delayed a 2/26 attempt.
Landing: 03/04/90, 01:08:44 p.m. EST, Runway 23 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: ??. Rollout distance: 7,900 feet. Rollout time:
53 seconds. Touchdown speed: 188 knots. DOD mission.
STS-31 Launch: 4/24/90, 8:34 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 4/18; moved up to 4/12 and then 4/10 after FRR. 4/10 launch try
Discovery 35 scrubbed at T-4 minutes due to faulty valve in APU No. 1. Final countdown delayed two minutes by concern about a fill and drain
valve.
Landing: 04/29/90, 09:49:57 a.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 80. Rollout distance: 8,874 feet. Rollout time:
61 seconds. 180 knots. First use of carbon-carbon brakes.
STS-41 Launch: 10/6/90, 7:47 a.m. EDT. Launch was delayed 12 minutes by last-minute concern about the weather and a minor technical
Discovery 36 glitch.
Landing: 10/10/90, 09:57:18 a.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 66. Rollout distance: 8,276 feet. Rollout time:
49 seconds. (braking test). Touchdown speed: 195 knots.
STS-38 Atlantis Launch: 11/15/90, 6:48 p.m. EST. Launch originally set for July 1990. Delayed to 11/9 by multiple LH2 leaks that required four
37 tanking tests. Launch delayed six more days due to payload problem.
Landing: 11/20/90, 04:42:42 p.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC (6). Landing orbit: ??. Rollout distance: 9,032 feet. Rollout time: 57
seconds. Touchdown speed: 197 knots. Flight extended one day due to high cross winds at EAFB. Additional high winds diverted
Atlantis to KSC.
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STS-35 Launch: 12/2/90, 1:49 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 5/16; later reset to 5/30 due to work needed to change out a faulty Freon
Columbia 38 loop; launch scrubbed during tanking due to LH2 leak. Columbia fixed and hauled back to pad 39-A for a 9/1 liftoff. Two days before
liftoff, BBXRT required service. Launch rest for 9/6 but LH2 leaks again cropped up. Tropical storm Klaus forced rollback 10/9.
Vehicle back to pad on 10/14. Final countdown was held up 21 minutes by weather.
Landing: 12/10/90, 12:54:08 p.m. EST, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 144. Rollout distance: 10,447 feet. Rollout
time: 58 seconds. Touchdown speed: 208 knots. One day early due to weather.
STS-37 Atlantis Launch: 4/5/91, 9:23 a.m. EST. Launch delayed 5 minutes due to low clouds.
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Landing: 04/11/91, 09:55:29 a.m. EDT, Runway 33 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 93. Rollout distance: 6,364 feet. Rollout time:
56 seconds. Touchdown speed: 157 knots. Re-entry originally set for 4/10, but landing was delayed one day due to bad weather at
EAFB and KSC.
STS-39 Launch: 4/28/91, 7:33 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 3/9; delayed by cracks in ET door hinges. Vehicle rolled back to hangar,
Discovery 40 fixed and returned. Launch reset for 4/23 but postponed during fueling by LOX turbopump transducer showed out-of-limit readings.
Launch reset for 4/28. Final countdown delayed 32 minutes when a data tape recorder started early.
Landing: 05/06/91, 02:55:35 p.m. EDT, Runway 15, KSC (7). Landing orbit: 134. Rollout distance: 9,235 feet. Rollout time: 56
seconds. Touchdown speed: 210 knots. Discovery diverted to KSC due to high winds at EAFB. No extension.
STS-40 Launch: 6/5/91, 9:25 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 5/22; delayed two days from liftoff by concern about the integrity of LH2
Columbia 41 sensors in the MPS. In addition, a GPC failed along with an MDM; both were replaced. Six LH2 and LOX sensors were replaced and
launch was rest for 6/1. Liftoff was delayed by IMU calibration problems; launch reset for 6/5.
Landing: 06/14/91, 11:39:11 a.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 146. Rollout distance: 9,403 feet. Rollout time:
55 seconds. Touchdown speed: 200 knots.
STS-43 Atlantis Launch: 8/2/91, 11:02 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 7/23; delayed to 7/24 to replace faulty IEA. Mission scrubbed again at T-
42 5 hours by faulty SSME controller. Launch reset for 8/1, but delayed by cabin pressure reading and then by RTLS weather. Launch
reset for 8/2. Final countdown was on time.
Landing: 08/11/91, 08:23:25 a.m. EDT, Runway 15, KSC (8). Landing orbit: 142. Rollout distance: 9,890 feet. Rollout time: 60
seconds. Touchdown speed: 203 knots. First planned KSC landing since STS-51D.
STS-48 Launch: 9/12/91, 7:11 p.m. EDT. Launch was delayed 14 minutes by a communications problem.
Discovery 43
Landing: 09/18/91, 03:38:42 a.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 81. Rollout distance: 9,513 feet. Rollout time:
50 seconds. Touchdown speed: 216 knots. One rev late. Discovery diverted to EAFB due to bad weather.
STS-44 Atlantis Launch: 11/24/91, 6:44 p.m. EST. Launch originally set for 11/19; delayed during tanking by IUS/IMU problem. Launch reset for
44 11/24; liftoff delayed 13 minutes by to condition LOX after work to fix an MLP LOX replenish valve.
Landing: 12/01/91, 05:34:12 p.m. EST, Runway 5 (lakebed), EAFB. Landing orbit: 110. Rollout distance: 11,191 feet. Rollout time:
107 seconds (minimum braking test). Touchdown speed: 183 knots. Mission shortened by three days and diverted to EAFB due to
IMU failure.
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STS-42 Launch: 1/22/92, 9:53 a.m. Launch delayed one hour by weather.
Discovery 45
Landing: 01/30/92, 11:07:17 a.m. EST, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 129. Rollout distance: 9,811 feet. Rollout time:
58 seconds. Touchdown speed: 200 knots. Mission extended one day for additional data collection.
STS-45 Atlantis Launch: 3/24/92, 8:14 a.m. EST. Launch delayed one day by high LH2 levels in the aft. Final countdown 3/24 delayed 14 minutes
46 by weather.
Landing: 04/02/92, 06:23 a.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC (9). Landing orbit: 143. Rollout distance: 9,227 feet. Rollout time: 60
seconds. Touchdown speed: 188 knots. Mission extended one day for additional data collection.
STS-49 Launch: 5/7/92; 7:40 p.m. EDT. Launch delayed 34 minutes because of a MEC byte error, concern about low clouds for TAL, RTLS.
Endeavour 47
Landing: 05/16/92, 09:57:38 p.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 141. Rollout distance: 9,490 feet (no braking).
Rollout time: 58 seconds. Touchdown speed: 211 knots. Two-day extension for Intelsat repair. First use of drag chute.
STS-50 Launch: 6/25/92; 12:12 p.m. EDT. Launch delayed 5 minutes because of low clouds.
Columbia 48
Landing: 07/09/92, 07:43 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC (10). Landing orbit: 220. Rollout distance: 10,200 feet. Rollout time: 59
seconds. Touchdown speed: 209 knots. Drag chute used. Columbia diverted to KSC due to bad weather at EAFB (one day late, then
one rev late). Longest shuttle flight to date.
STS-46 Atlantis Launch: 7/31/92; 9:56:48 a.m. EDT. Launch delayed 48 seconds after co-pilot was late flipping APU prestart switches.
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Landing: 08/08/92, 09:11:50 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC (11). Landing orbit: 127. Rollout distance: 10,860. Rollout time: 66
seconds. Touchdown speed: 204 knots. Mission extended one day for additional TSS operations. Then one rev late.
STS-47 Launch: 9/12/92; 10:23 a.m. EDT. Launch on time. This is the first on-time post-Challenger shuttle launch.
Endeavour 50
Landing: 09/20/92, 08:53:24 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC (12). Landing orbit: 127. Rollout distance: 8,567 feet. Rollout time: 58
seconds. Touchdown speed: 211 knots. Mission extended one day for additional data collection. Then one rev late.
STS-52 Launch: 10/22/92; 1:09:39 p.m. EDT. Launch delayed one hour and 54 minutes by bad TAL weather and high RTLS crosswinds.
Columbia 51 MMT signs RTLS crosswind waiver because average wind speed is less than 15 knots. Flight director Jeff Bantle disagrees but goes
along.
Landing: 11/01/92, 09:05:53 a.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC (13). Landing orbit: 159. Rollout distance: 10,708 feet. Rollout time: 63
seconds. Touchdown speed: 220 knots.
STS-53 Launch: 12/09/92; 8:24 a.m. EST. Launch delayed one hour and 25 minutes due to low temperature and ice on the external tank.
Discovery 52 Also: concern about wind shear.
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Landing: 12/09/92, 03:43:17 p.m. EST, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 115. Rollout distance: 10,165 feet. Rollout
time: ??. Touchdown speed: ??. Discovery diverted to EAFB due to cloud s at KSC. One rev late. Post landing fuel leak.
STS-54 Launch: 1/13/93; 8:59:30 a.m. EST. Launch delayed 7.5 minutes due to GLS downtime and clearance of a waiver on wing strut
Endeavour 53 loading. Five waivers processed in all.
Landing: 01/19/93, 08:37:47 a.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC (14). Landing orbit: 96. Rollout distance: 8,723 feet. Rollout time: ??.
Touchdown speed: ??. Landing delayed one orbit due to fog.
STS-56 Launch: 04/08/93; 1:29 a.m. EST. Launch originally planned for 4/6, but delayed one hour by RTLS crosswinds and concern about
Discovery 54 SSME No. 1 anti-flood valve. Launch attempt at 2:32 a.m. scrubbed at T-11 seconds due to high-point bleed valve fail-to-close
indication (valve was actually OK). Launch 4/8 on time.
Landing: 04/17/93, 07:37:19 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC (15). Landing orbit: 148. Rollout distance: 9,529 feet. Rollout time: 62
seconds. Touchdown speed: ??. Landing delayed one day due to weather.
STS-55 Launch: 04/26/93; 10:50 a.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for 2/25; delaye to 3/16 due to SSME LOX pump replacement to
Columbia 55 make sure out-of-date parts not installed (they were not). On 3/2, launch delayed again due to busted hydraulic hoses in aft
compartment; reset to 3/21 after Navy agrees to delay an Atlas-Centaur launch. Countdown began 3/18. Delta rocket delays on
3/18 and 3/19 delay Columbia to March 22. Launch attempt on 3/22 delayed at T-minus 3-second mark by RSLS abort (SSME No. 3
check valve failure to close). Launch reset for April 24 but a power supply problem with IMU No. 2 forced a scrub prior to fueling.
The IMU was replaced and launch April 26 was on time.
Landing: 05/06/93, 10:29:59 a.m. EDT, Runway 22 (concrete), EAFB. Landing orbit: 159. Rollout distance: ??. Rollout time: ??.
Touchdown speed: ??. Mission extended one day for additional data collection. Then one rev late to EAFB.
STS-57 Launch: 6/21/93; 9:07 a.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for 6/3; delayed 5/27 to replace the LOX pump on SSME No. 2 due to
Endeavour 56 concern about chemical etching in a high-stress area on a spring. Launch on 6/20 scrubbed due to clouds and rain in the launch
area. Launch on 6/21 delayed 22 seconds by a ship in the SRB recovery zone.
Landing: 07/01/93, 8:52:16 am., Runway 33, KSC (16). Landing orbit: 154. Mission extended one day as planned pre-flight for
additional data collection. Landing originally planned for June 29, but low clouds prompted back-to-back waveoffs on consecutive
orbits. Bad weather also delayed re-entry on June 30. Mission Management Team then elected to delay entry one more day. A
possible landing opportunity on July 1 was ruled out the day before because of poor lighting for the weather pilot. Landing on orbit
154 was uneventful.
STS-51 Launch: 9/12/93; 7:45 a.m. EDT. Launch attempt 7/17 ends at T-minus 20 minutes due to a faulty MLP transistor controlling the
Discovery 57 shuttle's hold-down posts and other pyro devices. Launch attempt No. 2 on 7/24 fails at T-minus 19 seconds when the right-side
SRB's HPU failed to operate properly. Launch rescheduled for 8/4, but ultimately delayed to 8/12 to avoid the Persied meteor
shower. Launch attempt No. 3 on 8/12 failed at T-minus 3 seconds due to a faulty fuel flow sensor in SSME No. 2 that triggered an
RSLS abort. Launch reset for 9/10 and then delayed two days to 9/12 to make sure no faulty transistors were in place aboard the
ACTS/TOS payload or other STS systems. This concern was triggered by the August failures of Mars Observer and NOAA-13. Launch
on Sept. 12 on time.
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Landing: 09/22/93, 3:56:07 a.m.; Runway 15, KSC (17). Landing orbit: 157. Rollout distance: ??. Rollout time: ??. Touchdown
speed: ??.Flight officially scheduled to last nine days, but officials said before launch it would be extended one day, fuel permitting,
to permit additional science. MMT, however, ruled out a mission extension after launch. Flight then extended one day anyway
because of cloudy weather.
STS-58 Launch: 10/18/93; 10:53 a.m. EST. Launch attempt on 10/14 delayed by weather, then by problems with an Air Force range
Columbia 58 computer that stopped the countdown at T-minus 31 seconds. A second attempt on 10/15 delayed by weather and, finally, by the
failure of S-band transponder No. 2 aboard the shuttle. Launch on 10/18 came 10 seconds late due to an aircraft in the danger area.
Landing: 11/01/93; 10:05:42 a.m. EST; Runway 22, EAFB (39). Landing orbit: 224. Rollout distance: ??. Rollout time: ??.
Touchdown speed: ??. Landing was on time and uneventful.
STS-61 Launch: 12/02/93; 4:27 a.m. EST. Launch attempt on 12/1 delayed by high winds and clouds in the KSC area. Second attempt on
Endeavour 59 12/2 is on time and uneventful.
Landing: 12/13/93; 12:25:33 a.m. EST; Runway 33, KSC (18). This was the second night landing at KSC and the seventh in shuttle
history. Landing orbit: 162. Landing was a bit long, but otherwise uneventful.
STS-62 Launch: 03/04/94; 8:53 a.m. EST. Launch was delayed one day due to bad weather. The launch actually was called off the day
Columbia 61 before the planned 3/3 T-0 in an unusual departure from normal NASA operating procedure. As it turned out, the forecast was
accurate. Launch on March 4 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 03/18/94; 8:09:41 a.m. EST; Runway 33, KSC (20). Landing orbit: 224. Landing was on time. After main gear
touchdown, Casper steered to the centerline using Columbia's rudder. The vehicle appeared to swerve sharply back and forth.
Landing otherwise was uneventful.
STS-59 Launch: 04/09/94; 7:05 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for 4/8 but delayed to 4/9 on first day of countdown to inspect HPOT
Endeavour 62 preburner vanes after problems reported during a teardown at Rocketdyne planet. No problems were found and launch reset for 4/8.
Low clouds and high winds ultimately delayed launch 24 more hours. Launch on 4/9 was on time.
Landing: 04/20/04; 12:54:30 p.m. EDT, Runway 22, EAFB. Landing orbit:282. Landing originally set for 4/18; flight extended one
day for additional science. Two KSC landing tries on 4/19 were blocked by low clouds. Third try for KSC on 4/20 again blocked by
low clouds; Endeavour diverted to Edwards where landing was uneventful.
STS-64 Launch: 09/09/94; 6:22:55 p.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for 4:30 p.m., but the flight was delayed by heavy clouds over
Discovery 64 KSC. The countdown held at T-minus nine minutes and finally at T-minus five minutes when conditions appeared to be improving.
Shortly thereafter the count resumed and ascent was normal.
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Landing: 09/20/94; 5:12:52 p.m. EDT, Runway 04, EAFB. Landing orbit 177. Landing originally set for 9/18; one day extension for
science. Landing on 9/19 delayed one day by bad weather that blocked two attempts at KSC. Two attempts at KSC on 9/20 also
failed; crew then landed at EAFB.
STS-68 Launch: 09/30/94; 7:16 a.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for 8/18, but the flight was delayed six weeks by an RSLS abort at
Endeavour 65 the T-minus 1.9-second mark. The abort was blamed on higher-than-permitted temperatures in the high pressure liquid oxygen
pump of SSME No. 3. The engine was removed and test fired at the Stennis Space Center on 9/2. Engineers concluded the abort
was caused by a combination of unrelated factors and not by a generic problem. In the meantime, NASA proceded with STS-64's
launch on 9/9. All three of Endeavour's engines were replaced by SSMEs taken from the shuttle Atlantis. Launch on 9/30 was on
time and uneventful.
Landing: 10/11/94; 1:02:09 p.m. EDT, Runway 22, EAFB. Landing orbit 183. Landing originally set for 10/10, but the flight was
extended one day for additional science. Landing at KSC on 10/11 was blocked by low clouds. Touchdown at EAFB was one orbit late
and uneventful.
STS-66 Atlantis Launch: 11/03/94; 11:59:43 a.m. EST. Launch was delayed three minutes and 43 seconds by TAL weather issues.
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Landing: 11/14/94; 10:33:45 a.m. EST, Runway 22, EAFB. Landing orbit: 175. Landing originally planned for KSC, but Atlantis was
diverted to Edwards by high winds and clouds. Landing at EAFB was two orbits late but uneventful.
STS-63 Launch: 02/03/95; 12:22:04 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for Feb. 2, but the flight was delayed one day to replace a faulty
Discovery 67 IMU. Launch Feb. 3 was on time.
Landing: 2/11/95; 6:50:19 a.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC. Landing orbit: 130. Landing was on time and uneventful.
STS-67 Launch: 03/02/95; 1:38:13 a.m. EST. Launch delayed one minute and 13 seconds due to problems with the orbiter's cooling
Endeavour 68 systems. Ascent was uneventful.
Landing: 03/18/95; 4:47:00 p.m. EST, Runway 22, EAFB. Landing orbit 262. Landing originally planned for 3/17 at KSC, but the
crew was waved off due to stormy weather. A second attempt to land in Florida on 3/18 also was waved off and Endeavour landed
at EAFB. This flight, the longest in shuttle history to this point, spanned 6.9 million miles and 262 orbits.
STS-71 Atlantis Launch: 06/27/95; 3:32:19 p.m. EDT. 100th U.S. manned space flight. Launch originally scheduled for late May, but the flight was
69 delayed due to problems launching the Spektr research module to Mir. The first actual launch attempt on June 23 was called off prior
to the start of tanking by thunderstorms and heavy rain. A second launch attempt on June 24 was scrubbed at T-minus nine minutes
due to more thunderstorms. Launch was delayed to June 27 to reservice PRSD. Liftoff on June 27 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 07/07/95; 10:54:36 a.m. EDT, Runway 15, KSC. Landing orbit 153. Landing on time and uneventful.
STS-70 Launch: 07/13/95; 9:41:55 a.m. EDT. Launch originally set for late June, then moved up to June 8 after STS-70 slipped from late
Discovery 70 May to late June (see above). Launch delayed from June 8 to July 13 due to more than 200 holes in the shuttle's external tank
drilled by a pair of nesting woodpeckers. STS-71 was launched in the interim. On July 13, STS-70's liftoff was delayed 55 seconds
due to contingency procedures required to verify ET destruct system receiver was working properly. Ascent was uneventful.
Landing: 07/22/95; 08:02:00 a.m . EDT, Runway 33, KSC. Landing orbit 143. Landing originally scheduled for 7/21; delayed one
day by heavy ground fog at KSC. Landing on 7/22 delayed one orbit due to the threat of fog (conditions actually were "go"). Landing
on orbit 143 was uneventful.
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STS-69 Launch: 09/07/95; 11:09 a.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for late July, delayed to Aug. 5 to provide more time for
Endeavour 71 crew/ground controller training. Later in July, flight was delayed indefinitely due to suspect O-ring nozzle joints. In early August,
Hurricane Erin forced shuttle rollback to VAB. After return to pad 39A, SRB nozzle joint repairs were made. Launch attempt on Aug.
31 called off prior to fueling because of faulty Fuel Cell No. 2. Fuel cell replaced. Launch on Sept. 7 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 09/18/95; 7:37:56 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC. Landing on orbit 171. Landing was on time and uneventful.
STS-73 Launch: 10/20/95; 9:53 a.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for Sept. 28, but delayed to Oct. 5 to replace leacking main fuel
Columbia 72 valve on SSME No. 1; then delayed to Oct. 6 by Hurricane Opal; Oct. 6 passed up due to hydraulic system problems; Oct. 7 launch
try scrubbed due to faulty master events controller; Oct. 14 launch date missed due to unplanned main engine weld inspections;
Oct. 15 missed due to low clouds. Launch rescheduled for Oct. 20, after two attempts to launch Atlas-2/UHF rocket. Launch on Oct.
20 on time and uneventful.
Landing: 11/05/95; 6:45:22 a.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. Landing on orbit 256. Landing was on time and uneventful.
STS-74 Atlantis Launch: 11/12/95; 7:30:42 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for Nov. 11, but the flight was delayed 24 hours by high winds,
73 low clouds and rain at all three TAL runways in Spain and Africa. Ascent on Nov. 12 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 11/20/95; 12:01:56 p.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. Landing on orbit 128. Landing was on time and uneventful.
STS-72 Launch: 1/11/96; 4:41 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for 4:18 a.m., but liftoff was delayed 23 minutes due to a
Endeavour 74 communications problem in Houston. Ascent was uneventful.
Landing: 01/20/96; 2:41:40 a.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC. Landing on orbit 142. Landing was on time and uneventful.
STS-76 Atlantis Launch: 03/22/96; 3:13:04 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for 3/21, but NASA's Mission Management Team called off the
76 attempt the day before based on a dismal forecast. Launch on 3/22 was on time. The only anomaly was a hydraulic leak in system
No. 3 that had no impact on the mission.
Landing: 03/31/96; 8:28:57 a.m. EST, Runway 22, EAFB. During the mission, flight director Jeff Bantle shortened Atlantis' flight by
one day to take advantage of expected good weather at KSC. This decision was made in part because of a hydraulic leak during
launch. As it turned out, the weather precluded a March 30 landing at KSC and the flight was extended one day to March 31. Atlantis
was diverted to Edwards because of uncertain weather at KSC.
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Landing: 05/29/96; 7:09:18 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC. Landing on orbit 161. Landing was on time and uneventful.
STS-79 Atlantis Launch: 09/16/96; 4:54:49 a.m. EDT. Launch on time. NOTE: Launch originally scheduled for July 31, but the flight was delayed
79 because of 1) Hurricane Bertha, which required a rollback from the pad; 2) work to replace both SRBs due to concern about damage
found in Columbia's boosters the preceding June; 3) Hurricane Fran, which required a second rollback.
Landing: 09/26/96; 8:13:15 a.m. EDT, Runway 15, KSC. Landing on orbit 160. Landing was on time and uneventful despite the
failure earlier in the mission of APU-2.
STS-80 Launch: 11/19/96, 2:55:47 p.m. EST. Launch delayed two minutes and 47 seconds at the T-minus 31-second mark due to hydrogen
Columbia 80 in aft compartment. Launch originally scheduled for Oct. 30, but the flight was repeatedly delayed due to concern about booster
nozzle erosion discovered after STS-79. On Nov. 13, the flight was delayed from Nov. 15 to 19 because of a bad forecast.
Landing: 12/07/96, 6:49:05 a.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. Landing on orbit 279. Mission was extended two days due to bad weather
at the Kennedy Space Center. Touchdown on 12/7 was on time and uneventful. Record flight duration.
STS-81 Atlantis Launch: 01/12/97, 4:27:23 a.m. EST. Launch on time after a virtually problem free countdown.
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Landing: 01/22/97, 9:22:44 a.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. Landing on orbit 161. Mission extended one orbit due to low clouds over
the landing site.
STS-83 Launch: 04/04/97, 02:20:31 p.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for April 3, but on April 1, mission managers delayed the flight
Columbia 83 one day to insulate water coolant lines servicing Columbia's Spacelab research module. Launch on April 4 was delayed 20 minutes by
work to close the shuttle's hatch and because of last-minute concern about oxygen concentrations in the fuselage and engine
compartment.
Landing: 04/08/97, 01:30:45 p.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC. Planned 16-day mission cut short because of concern about possible fuel
cell problem. Heavyweight landing uneventful.
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Landing: 05/24/98, 09:27:44 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC. Landing on orbit 145. Re-entry delayed one orbit by weather.
STS-94 Launch: 07/01/97, 02:02 p.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for 2:37 p.m., but it was moved up 47 minutes, to 1:50 p.m., due
Columbia 85 to threatening weather. Actual liftoff delayed 12 minutes due to rain showers north of the pad.
Landing: 07/17/97, 06:46:34 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC. On time.
STS-90 Launch: 04/17/98, 2:19:00 p.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for 4/16 but flight delayed one day to replace a network signal
Columbia 90 processor (one of two) that formats data to and from the orbiter. The suspect unit would not switch to high data rate mode.
Replacement was ordered before fueling began so launch was delayed just one day. Liftoff on April 17 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 05/03/98, 12:08:59 p.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC. On time. APU-3 was not activated until Mach 2.5 due to failure of water
spray boiler cooling system. Entry was uneventful and all three APUs ran normally.
STS-95 Launch: 10/29/98, 02:19:34 p.m. EST. Launch delayed 19 minutes and 34 seconds by multiple private aircraft in the launch danger
Discovery 92 zone, presumably to view John Glenn's launch.
Landing: 11/07/98, 12:03:31 p.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. On time.
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STS-88 Launch: 12/04/98, 03:35:34 a.m. EST. Launch originally set for 12/03, but the flight was delayed 24 hours when the launch team
Endeavour 93 failed to resolve questions about an APU pressure spike at startup before LOX drainback time expired. Later determined to be result
of normal startup transient. Launch on 12/04 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 12/15/98, 10:53:29 p.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC. On time.
STS-93 Launch: 07/23/99, 12:31 a.m. EDT. Launch originally scheduled for 07/20/99, but countdown stopped at T-minus seven seconds
Columbia 95 when high levels of hydrogen were detected in Columbia's aft compartment; later determined to be a false reading and launch was
rescheduled for 07/22/99. Launch scrubbed at T-minus five minutes due to lightning in launch area. Launch on 07/23/99 was on
time.
Landing: 07/23/99, 11:20:35 a.m. EDT, Runway 33, KSC. On time.
STS-103 Launch: 12/19/99, 7:50 p.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for Oct. 14, but the flight was repeatedly delayed to fix extensive
Discovery 96 shuttle wiring problems discovered in the wake of a short circuit during the STS-93 launch July 23. STS-103 launch retargeted for
Oct. 28, then Nov. 19, Dec. 2, Dec. 6, Dec. 9, Dec. 11. Along with frayed wiring, engineers also had to A) replace a main engine due
to a drill bit lodged inside; B) repair electrical wiring between the external tank and boosters; C) replace a dented hydrogen
recirculation line in the engine compartment. The countdown finally began for a launch attempt Dec. 16 but before fueling began,
launch was delayed one day to review the quality of MPS propellant line welds. Launch Dec. 17 was called off due to low clouds and
rain. NASA did not bother to tank on Dec. 18 because of coninuing bad weather. Discovery finally took off on Dec. 19, the final day
possible in 1999 because of a Y2K landing deadline. Discovery's nine target launch dates was a shuttle record. Liftoff Dec. 19 was on
time.
Landing: 12/27/99, 7:00:47 p.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. Landing delayed one orbit by high crosswinds. Landing on orbit 120 was
uneventful.
STS-99 Launch: 02/11/00, 12:43:40 p.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for Sept. 16, but the flight was repeatedly delayed because of
Endeavour 97 wiring problems (see previous entry). Endeavour was given a clean bill of health in early January and last-minute concern about
potential tile problems was resolved by the middle of the month. But low clouds and rain forced NASA to scrub a Jan. 31 launch
attempt. And even if the weather had been acceptable, the flight would have been delayed because of concern about the health of a
master events controller, or MEC, aboard Endeavour. One of the two aboard Endeavour - MEC-2 - failed a health check at T-minus
29 minutes on Jan. 31. After troubleshooting the problem overnight, NASA managers decided to replace the unit, delaying launch to
at least Feb. 9. Due to conflicts with other rocket launches, the flight ultimately slipped to Feb. 11. Liftoff was delayed 13 minutes
and 40 seconds by a trio of minor technical problems.
Landing: 02/22/00, 06:22:23 p.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. Landing delayed one orbit due to high crosswinds.
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STS-101 Launch: 05/99/00, 06:11:09 a.m. EDT. NASA decided in February to break mission STS-106 - ISS 2A.1 - into two missions in order
Atlantis 98 to repair failing batteries aboard the Russian Zarya module as soon as possible. After numerous delays because of technical
problems, launch attempts on April 24 and 25 were scrubbed due to high winds at the Kennedy Space Center's emergency runway.
An attempt on April 26 was scrubbed because of bad weather at NASA's overseas TAL landing sites. This was the first campaign in
shuttle history to attempt three back-to-back launch attempts. Because of conflicts with other rockets on the Air Force Eastern
Range, Atlantis ultimately was rescheduled for a launch attempt on May 18. Because of problems launching a new Lockheed Martin
Atlas 3R rocket, the shuttle launch slipped to May 19. Launch on May 19 was on time after an uneventful countdown.
STS-92 Launch: 10/11/00, 7:17:00 p.m. EDT. Launch originally set for Oct. 5, but the flight was delayed, first by 24 hours to resolve
Discovery 100 questions about bolts in the external tank aft attachment system and then to Monday, Oct. 9, because of work to replace a suspect
POGO valve in the engine compartment. High winds Oct. 9 prevented engineers from completing fueling preparations and launch
was delayed another 24 hours. A launch attempt on Oct. 10 was delayed yet another 24 hours after engineers noticed a metal pip
pin lodged on the external tank oxygen feed line system. The final launch attempt on Oct. 11 was on time.
Landing: 10/24/00, 4:59:41 p.m. EDT, Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Landing originally planned for Oct. 22, but the
flight was extended one day because of high crosswinds at the Kennedy Space Center. More high winds in Florida and bad weather
in California forced a second extension. The weather remained unacceptable in Florida on Oct. 24, but conditions were ideal at
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., where the shuttle landed on its first California landing opportunity.
STS-98 Atlantis Launch: 02/07/01, 6:13:02 p.m. EST. Launch originally targeted for Jan. 18, but rollout to the pad in December was delayed until
102 after Christmas to inspect suspect wiring in the shuttle's booster separation system. Atlantis was hauled to the pad on Jan. 3 for a
launch attempt on Jan. 19. But on Jan. 15, a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building for additional booster cable inspections. On
Jan. 25, launch was retargeted for Feb. 7. Launch on Feb. 7 was on time.
Landing: 02/20/01, 3:33:05 p.m. EST, Runway 22, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Landing originally planned for Feb. 18 at the
Kennedy Space Center, but landing was delayed to Feb. 19 by high crosswinds at the Florida spaceport. More high winds on Feb. 19
forced an additional on-day delay, to Feb. 20. Atlantis then was diverted to Edwards because of a low deck of clouds that violated
NASA's safety limits. Touchdown at Edwards was uneventful.
Landing: 03/21/01, 02:31:41 a.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC. Landing delayed one orbit because of expected high crosswinds, possible
showers. Touchdown was uneventful.
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STS-105 Launch: 08/10/01, 05:10:14 p.m. EDT. Launch originally set for Aug. 9, but the flight was delayed 24 hours by thunderstorms in the
Discovery 106 Kennedy Space Center area. Launch on Aug. 10 was moved up five minutes, from the preferred time to the opening of the planar
window, because of the threat of approaching clouds. Liftoff was uneventful.
Landing: 08/22/01, 2:22:58 p.m. EDT, Runway 15, KSC. Landing was delayed one orbit because of rain clouds near the southern
end of the runway. The clouds dissipated and entry one orbit later was uneventful.
STS-108 Launch: 12/05/01, 5:19:28 p.m. EST. Launch originally set for 11/29, but the flight was put on hold after Russian flight controllers
Endeavour reported problems hard docking a Progress supply ship that arrived at the space station earlier in the week. Launch initially was
107 delayed one day, to Nov. 30, and later to Tuesday, Dec. 4, one day after a spacewalk by the station crew to clear a rubber O-ring
seal lodged in the Progress docking interface. The spacewalk was successful. But bad weather on Dec. 4 forced another 24-hour
delay. Launch on Dec. 5 as on time and uneventful.
Landing: 12/17/01, 12:55:10 p.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC. On time.
STS-109 Launch: 03/01/02, 6:22:02 a.m. EST. Launch originally targeted for Feb. 28, but the flight was delayed one day because of
Columbia 108 expected low temperatures. Launch on March 1 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 03/12/02, 4:31:52 a.m., Runway 33, KSC. On time.
STS-110 Launch: 04/08/02, 04:44:19 p.m. EDT. Launch originally set for April 4, but the flight was delayed during fueling when a hydrogen
Atlantis 109 vent line on MLP-3 ruptured. Launch on April 8 was delayed at the T-minus 5:30 point because of RF glitches in a backup telemetry
channel on the ground. The computer was rebooted in time for a launch just 11 seconds before the window closed.
STS-111 Launch: 06/05/02, 05:22:49 p.m. EDT. Launch originally was scheduled for May 30, but the flight was scrubbed and recycled for
Endeavour May 31 due to approaching storms. Before fueling began on Friday ,May 31, the flight was delayed to June 3 because of a dismal
110 forecast calling for afternoon and evening thunderstorms through the weekend. Then on June 1, launch was delayed an additional
day, to June 4, to give engineers time to replace a suspect nitrogen valve in the ship's left-side OMS pod. The R&R eventually forced
NASA to delay the flight yet another day, to June 5, because of problems getting test equipment in place. Launch on June 5 was on
time and uneventful.
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Landing: 06/19/02, 1:57:41 p.m. EDT, Runway 22, EAFB. Landing originallly planned for June 17, but two KSC opportunities were
waved off due to showers and thunderstorms near the runway. Two more KSC opportunities were waved off June 18 because of
similar weather.
STS-112 Launch: 10/07/02, 3:45:51 p.m. EDT. Launch originally set for Aug. 22, but the shuttle fleet was grounded in July because of SSME
Atlantis 111 flow liner cracks. STS-112 ultimately slipped to Sept. 28 to accommodate repairs. Launch then slipped to Oct. 2 because of problems
with NASA's crawler-transporters. Then, the approach of Hurricane Lili toward the Johnson Space Center prompted a delay to Oct. 7.
Launch on Oct. 7 was on time. During ascent, foam from the bipod ramp hit a booster IEA.
STS-113 Launch: 11/23/02, 7:49:47 p.m. EST. Launch originally planned for mid October, but the shuttle fleet was grounded in July because
Endeavour of cracks found in hydrogen fuel lines. Launch slipped from Oct. 6 to Nov. 2 and then to Nov. 11 to accommodate the delayed launch
112 of a Soyuz taxi craft to the space station. The shuttle was grounded again on Nov. 10 because of a leak in an oxygen flex hose below
the forward payload bay liner. The leak was quickly fixed but in doing so, an access platform bumped Eneavour's robot arm.
Engineers eventually declared the arm healthy enough for flight. A launch attempt Nov. 22 was scrubbed due to rain at both Spanish
TAL sites. Launch on Nov. 23 was on time and uneventful.
Landing: 12/07/02, 2:37:12 p.m. EST, Runway 33, KSC. Landing originally scheduled for 12/4, but predicted clouds and rain
showers blocked two attempts in a row. More bad weather blocked landing attempts 12/5 and 12/6. Landing on 12/7 was on time
and uneventful.
STS-107 Launch: 01/16/03, 10:39 a.m. EST. Launch on time. 81.7 seconds after liftoff, a 1.67-pound piece of foam insulation from the ET
Columbia 113 left bipod ramp broke free and impacted the left wing leading edge around RCC panel No. 8. The foam was seen in video, but the
impact site was out of view. Mission managers concluded the shuttle could safely return to Earth as is.
Landing: Scheduled for 2/1/03, 9:16 a.m. Sixteen minutes before touchdown, Columbia broke apart at an altitude of 37 miles and a
velocity of Mach 12 due to plasma intrusion through a leading edge breach into the interior of the left wing. The breach was caused
by the impact of foam debris during ascent 16 days earlier. The left wing melted from the inside out, resulting in loss of control and
destruction of the vehicle. All seven astronauts were killed and the shuttle fleet was grounded.
STS-114 Launch: 07/26/05, 10:39:00 a.m. EDT. Launch originally targeted for July 13, but the countdown was called off two-and-a-half
Discovery hours before liftoff because of suspect data from one of four hydrogen engine cutoff sensors in the external tank. The cause was
114 never conclusively determined, but all relevant hardware was replaced/inspected. Launch on 7/26 was on time and ECO sensors
workeed normally. During ascent, however, large pieces of foam insulation fell away from the external tank hydrogen PAL ramp,
intertank flange, bipod area and acreage foam.
Landing: 08/09/05, 8:11:22 a.m. EDT. Landing originally was planned for 8/8 at the Kennedy Space Center, but cloudy weather
blocked two deorbit revs and the flight was extended one day. After waving off the first rev on 8/9, again because of clouds, flight
director LeRoy Cain diverted the crew to Edwards. Landing was uneventful.
STS-121 Launch: 07/04/06, 07:37:55 a.m. EDT. Launch originally targeted for July 1, but launch was scrubbed during the T-9 hold due to
Discovery rain showers and anvil clouds. A launch attempt July 2 was called off shortly after crew boarding because of showers and cloud
115 cover. NASA stood down July 3 to top of PRSD. After resolution of questions about lost foam insulation on an ET LO2 feedline
support bracket, Discovery was cleared for launch July 4. Ascent was on time and uneventful.
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Landing: 7/19/06, 9:14:43 a.m. EDT, Runway 15, KSC. On time. Starboard air data probe did not initially deploy, but ultimately did.
Concern about a small N2 or hydrazine leak in APU 1 caused no problems and no hydrazine was detected on the runway.
STS-115 Launch: 9/9/06, 11:14:55 a.m., LC-39B, KSC. Launch originally targeted for Aug. 27, but a launch pad lightning strike Aug. 25
Atlantis 116 forced a one-day delay. Launch eventually slipped another day before tropical storm/hurricane Ernesto forced NASA to order a
rollback to the VAB on Aug. 29. Halfway to the VAB, the forecast improved enough for an unprecedented decision to return to pad
39B to ride out the tropical storm. Launch was reset for Sept. 6 but the night before, fuel cell No. 1 experienced an internal short
preventing phase A power from reaching a Freon coolant pump motor inside the fuel cell. Launch was put on hold pending an
analysis. Launch then reset for Sept. 8, but LH2 ECO-3 failed wet shortly after fueling began. NASA stood down 24 hours in
accordance with a revised LCC in a bid to launch with three of four operational ECO sensors. On 9/9, all four ECO sensors worked
normally and the shuttle took off on time. No major foam shedding was observed prior to a few small pieces four minutes and five
minutes after launch, well beyond the zone of concern.
Landing: 09/21/06, 6:21:30 a.m. EDT. Landing originally expected on 9/20, but entry was delayed 24 hours the day before when
engineers spotted co-orbital debris that apparently came from the shuttle. A heat shield inspection was carried out 9/20 and no
problems were found. Landing on 9/21 was on time and uneventful.
STS-116 Launch: 12/9/06, 8:47:35 p.m. EST, LC-39B, KSC. Launch originally set for 12/7/06, but the flight was delayed, at the T-minus 5-
Discovery 117 minute mark, by low cloud cover. Based on the forecast, the MTT opted to delay launch 48 hours to top off PRSD. Despite an initial
70 percent 'no go' forecast, launch on 12/9 was on-time and ascent was uneventful.
Landing: 12/22/06, 5:31:24 p.m. EST, Runway 15, KSC. STS-116 originally scheduled for landing 9/21, but the flight was extended
one day to permit a fourth EVA to retract the P6-4B solar array wing and a decision by the MMT to retain a post-undocking TPS
inspection. That pushed landing to 9/22 and because of PRSD constraints, only one backup day was available. As a result, all three
shuttle landing sites were activated for the 9/22 attempt. Bad weather at KSC and high crosswinds at Edwards raised concern about
a possible White Sands landing, NASA's first since 1982. An initial attempt on rev. 202 to KSC was waved off due to concern about
rains and low clouds. On the next rev, about six minutes before TIG, entry flight director Norm Knight cleared Discovery for KSC.
Landing was uneventful.
STS-117 TBD
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Vostok 1 Yuri Gagarin 04/12/61 04/12/61 1h:48m First manned space flight (1 orbit).
MR 3 Alan Shepard 05/05/61 05/05/61 15m:22s First American in space (suborbital). Freedom 7.
MR 4 Virgil Grissom 07/21/61 07/21/61 15m:37s Second suborbital flight; spacecraft sank, Grissom
rescued. Liberty Bell 7.
Vostok 2 Guerman Titov 08/06/61 08/07/61 1d:01h:18m First flight longer than 24 hours (17 orbits).
MA 6 John Glenn 02/20/62 02/20/62 04h:55m First American in orbit (3 orbits); telemetry falsely
indicated heatshield unlatched. Friendship 7.
MA 7 Scott Carpenter 05/24/62 05/24/62 04h:56m Initiated space flight experiments; manual retrofire
error caused 250 mile landing overshoot. Aurora 7.
Vostok 3 Andrian Nikolayev 08/11/62 08/15/62 3d:22h:22m First twinned flight, with Vostok 4.
Vostok 4 Pavel Popovich 08/12/62 08/15/62 2d:22h:57m First twinned flight. On first orbit came within 3
miles of Vostok 3.
MA 8 Walter Schirra 10/03/62 10/03/62 09h:13m Developed techniques for long duration missions (6
orbits); closest splashdown to target to date (4.5
miles). Sigma 7.
MA 9 Gordon Cooper 05/15/63 05/16/63 1d:10h:20m First U.S. evaluation of effects of one day in space
(22 orbits); performed manual reentry after
systems failure, landing 4 miles from target. Faith
7.
Vostok 5 Valeri Bykovsky 06/14/63 06/19/63 4d:23h:08m Second twinned flight, with Vostok 6.
Vostok 6 Valentina Tereshkova 06/16/63 06/19/63 2d:22h:51m First woman in space; passed within 3 miles of
Vostok 5.
X-15/Flight 90 Joseph Walker 07/19/63 07/19/63 <15m First rocket-powered aircraft to reach space (FAI
definition); sub-orbital reaching 347,800 feet
(106,010 m) altitude.
X-15/Flight 91 Joseph Walker 08/22/63 08/22/63 <15m Rocket-powered aircraft; sub-orbital reaching
354,200 feet (107,960 m) altitude.
Voskhod 1 Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin 10/12/64 10/13/64 1d:00h:17m Modified Vostok; first three man crew in space;
Feoktistov, Boris Yegorov first without space suits.
Voskhod 2 Pavel Belyayev, Alexei Leonov 03/18/65 03/19/65 1d:02h:02m Modified Vostok; first spacewalk by Leonov (10
min) via inflatable airlock.
Gemini 3 Virgil Grissom, John Young 03/23/65 03/23/65 04h:53m First American two man crew; first piloted
spacecraft to change its orbital path; first
computer, allowing onboard calculation of
manoeuvers.
Gemini 4 James McDivitt, Edward White 06/03/65 06/07/65 4d:01h:56m First American spacewalk by White (21 min); first
US 4-day flight; manual reentry made after
computer failure.
Gemini 5 Gordon Cooper, Charles Conrad 08/21/65 08/29/65 7d:22h:55m First use of fuel cells for electric power; evaluated
guidance and navigation system.
Gemini 7 Frank Borman, James Lovell 12/04/65 12/18/65 13d:18h:35m Longest US flight for 8 years (206 orbits), record
until Soyuz 9; rendezvous with Gemini 6.
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Gemini 6 Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford 12/15/65 12/16/65 1d:01h:51m First manned rendezvous, to within 6 feet of
Gemini 7 (as planned Agena was lost).
Gemini 8 Neil Armstrong, David Scott 03/16/66 03/17/66 10h:41m First docking (with Agena) of one space vehicle
with another; emergency reentry after control
malfunction; first Pacific landing.
Gemini 9 Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan 06/03/66 06/06/66 3d:00h:21m 127 min EVA by Cernan; rendezvous but no
docking with target; landed 1/2 mile from recovery
ship.
Gemini 10 John Young, Michael Collins 07/18/66 07/21/66 2d:22h:47m Docked with Agena 10 and used engine to attain
record 474 mile (763 km) altitude; rendezvous with
Agena 8; 39 min EVA by Collins.
Gemini 11 Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon 09/12/66 09/15/66 2d:23h:17m Used Agena engine to attain record 850 mile (1369
km) altitude; 163 min EVA by Gordon, connected
Gemini and Agena by tether; first automatic
computer-guided reentry.
Gemini 12 James Lovell, Edwin Aldrin 11/11/66 11/15/66 3d:22h:35m Final Gemini mission; Agena docking; record 5.5
hours of EVA by Aldrin, first work carried out during
a EVA; automatic computer-guided reentry.
Soyuz 1 Vladimir Komarov 04/23/67 04/24/67 1d:02h:48m Retroparachute failed to open, causing cosmonaut
to be killed.
Apollo 7 Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter 10/11/68 10/22/68 10d:20h:09m First piloted flight of Apollo spacecraft, command-
Cunningham service module only; first US 3-man flight; live TV
footage of crew.
Soyuz 3 Georgi Beregovoi 10/26/68 10/30/68 3d:22h:51m Rendezvous with unmanned Soyuz 2.
Apollo 8 Frank Borman, James Lovell, William 12/21/68 12/27/68 6d:03h:01m First manned lunar orbit and piloted lunar return
Anders reentry (CSM only); first manned Saturn V; views of
lunar surface televised to Earth.
Soyuz 4 Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev 01/14/69 01/17/69 2d:23h:21m First docking of two piloted spacecraft, with Soyuz
(down), Yevgeni Khrunov (down) 5.
Soyuz 5 Boris Volynov, Aleksei Yeliseyev (up), 01/15/69 01/18/69 3d:00h:54m Docked with Soyuz 4; Yeliseyev and Khrunov
Yevgeni Khrunov (up) transfered by EVA to Soyuz 4.
Apollo 9 James McDivitt, David Scott, Russell 03/03/69 03/13/69 10d:01h:01m First piloted flight of lunar module (Earth orbit); 56
Schweickart min Schweickart EVA tested lunar suit.
Apollo 10 Thomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene 05/18/69 05/26/69 8d:00h:03m First lunar module orbit of Moon, descent to within
Cernan 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) of Moon's surface;
holds manned speed record, 6.8863 mi/s (11.0825
km/s) at atmosphere entry.
Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, 07/16/69 07/24/69 8d:03h:19m First lunar landing made by Armstrong and Aldrin
Edwin Aldrin (20-Jul); 151 min lunar EVA; collected 48.5 lb (22
kg) of soil & rock samples; lunar stay time
21h:36m.
Soyuz 6 Georgi Shonin, Valeri Kubasov 10/11/69 10/16/69 4d:22h:43m Rendezvous with Soyuz 7/8; first welding of metals
in space.
Soyuz 7 Anatoli Filipchenko, Vladislav Volkov, 10/12/69 10/17/69 4d:22h:40m Triple rendezvous with Soyuz 6/8; space lab
Viktor Gorbatko construction test made; first time 3 spacecraft, 7
crew members orbited the Earth at once.
Soyuz 8 Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev 10/13/69 10/18/69 4d:22h:51m Triple rendezvous with Soyuz 6/7; part of space lab
construction team.
Apollo 12 Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan 11/14/69 11/24/69 10d:04h:36m Conrad and Bean made second Moon landing; 2
Bean lunar EVAs totalling 465 min; collected 74.7 lb
(33.9 kg) of samples; lunar stay time 31h:31m.
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Apollo 13 James Lovell, John Swigart, Fred 04/11/70 04/17/70 5d:22h:55m Mission aborted following service module oxygen
Haise tank explosion; crew returned safely using lunar
module; circumlunar return; holds manned altitude
record, 248,665 miles (400,187 km) above Earth's
surface.
Soyuz 9 Andrian Nikolayev, Vitali Sevastyanov 06/01/70 06/19/70 17d:16h:59m This flight marked the beginning of working in
space under weightless conditions; endurance
record for solo craft remains.
Apollo 14 Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, Edgar 01/31/71 02/09/71 9d:00h:02m Shepard and Mitchell made third Moon landing; 2
Mitchell lunar EVAs totalling 563 min; collected 96 lb (43.5
kg) of lunar samples; lunar stay time 33h:31m.
Salyut 1 Unmanned space station 04/19/71 10/11/71 175d First space station; occupied by Soyuz 11 crew for
23 days.
Soyuz 10 Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, 04/22/71 04/24/71 1d:23h:46m Adjustment of an improved docking bay between
Nikolai Rukavishnikov the spacecraft and the orbiting Salyut space
station, but no cosmonauts entered the orbiting
station.
Soyuz 11 Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, 06/06/71 06/29/71 23d:18h:22m Docked and entered Salyut 1 space station; orbited
Viktor Patsayev in Salyut 1 for 23 days; crew died during reentry
from loss of pressurization.
Apollo 15 David Scott, Alfred Worden, James 07/26/71 08/07/71 12d:07h:12m Scott and Irwin made fourth Moon landing; first
Irwin lunar rover use; first deep spacewalk; 3 lunar EVAs
totalling 19h:8m; collected 170 lb (77 kg) of
samples; lunar stay time 66h:54m; 38 min Worden
EVA; subsatellite released.
Apollo 16 John Young, Thomas Mattingly, 04/16/72 04/27/72 11d:01h:51m Young and Duke made fifth Moon landing; 3 lunar
Charles Duke EVAs totalling 20h:14m; collected 213 lb (97 kg) of
lunar samples; lunar stay time 71:14; subsatellite
released
Apollo 17 Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, 12/07/72 12/19/72 12d:13h:52m Cernan and Schmitt made sixth piloted lunar
Harrison Schmitt landing; 3 lunar EVAs totalling 22h:4m; collected
243 lb (110 kg) of samples; record lunar stay of
74:59; 66 min Evans EVA.
Skylab 1 Unmanned space station 05/14/73 07/11/73 2,249d First U.S. space station; occupied by Skylab 2, 3 &
4 crews.
Skylab 2 Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, Paul 05/25/73 06/22/73 28d:00h:50m First American piloted orbiting space station; made
Weitz long-flight tests, crew repaired damage caused
during boost; 2 EVAs + SEVA.
Skylab 3 Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack 07/28/73 09/25/73 59d:11h:10m Crew systems and operational tests, exceeded pre-
Lousma mission plans for scientific activities; 3 EVAs
totalling 13:44.
Soyuz 12 Vasili Lazarev, Oleg Makarov 09/27/73 09/29/73 1d:23h:16m After Soyuz 11 accident, new life support
equipment was tested.
Skylab 4 Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, William 11/16/73 02/08/74 84d:01h:15m Final Skylab mission; endurance record until Soyuz
Pogue 29-Salyut 6; 4 EVAs, set then-record spacewalk of
7h:1m.
Soyuz 13 Pyotr Klimuk, Valentin Lebedev 12/18/73 12/26/73 7d:20h:56m Astrophysical observations made with Orion
ultraviolet telescope; Earth is photographed.
Salyut 3 Unmanned space station 06/25/74 01/24/75 213d 2nd space station; occupied by Soyuz 14 crew.
Soyuz 14 Pavel Popovich, Yuri Artyukhin 07/03/74 07/19/74 15d:17h:30m Sole occupation of Salyut 3 (no docking).
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Soyuz 15 Gennadi Sarafanov, Lev Demin 08/26/74 08/28/74 2d:00h:12m Failed to dock with Salyut 3 because of Soyuz
systems failures; first return to Earth during the
night.
Soyuz 16 Anatoli Filipchenko, Nikolai 12/02/74 12/08/74 5d:22h:24m Trial run with a modified Soyuz capable of docking
Rukavishnikov with the U.S. Apollo spacecraft.
Salyut 4 Unmanned space station 12/26/74 02/03/77 770d 3rd space station; occupied by 2 crews for 93 days.
Soyuz 17 Aleksey Gubarev, Georgi Grechko 01/10/75 02/09/75 29d:13h:20m First Salyut 4 occupation; Soviet endurance record.
Soyuz 18A Vasili Lazarev, Oleg Makarov 04/05/75 04/05/75 21m:27s Launch to Salyut 4 aborted when stage 1 failed to
separate; 14g reentry.
Soyuz 18B Pyotr Klimuk, Vitali Sevastyanov 05/24/75 07/26/75 62d:23h:20m 2nd Salyut 4 occupation; Soviet endurance record.
Soyuz 19-ASTP Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov 07/15/75 07/21/75 5d:22h:31m First U.S./USSR joint flight; docked with Apollo 18
for 2 days; conducted experiments, shared meals,
and held a joint news conference.
Apollo 18-ASTP Vance Brand, Thomas Stafford, 07/15/75 07/24/75 9d:01h:28m Joint flight with Soyuz 19.
Donald Slayton
Salyut 5 Unmanned space station 06/22/76 08/08/77 412d 4th space station; occupied by 2 crews for 65 days.
Soyuz 21 Boris Volynov, Vitali Zholobov 07/06/76 08/24/76 49d:06h:24m First Salyut 5 occupation (48 days); acid fumes
forced return.
Soyuz 22 Valeri Bykovsky, Vladimir Aksyonov 09/15/76 09/23/76 7d:21h:52m Spacecraft was modified to enable the crew to
photograph the Earth.
Soyuz 23 Vyacheslav Zudov, Valeri 10/14/76 10/16/76 2d:00h:07m Docking between the spacecraft and Salyut 5
Rozhdestvensky failed; first Soviet splashdown after emergency
return.
Soyuz 24 Viktor Gorbatko, Yuri Glazkov 02/07/77 02/25/77 17d:17h:26m 2nd Salyut 5 occupation.
Salyut 6 Unmanned space station 09/29/77 07/28/82 1763d 5th space station; occupied for 676 days by 5 long
stay + 11 visiting crews.
Soyuz 25 Vladimir Kovalyonok, Valeri Ryumin 10/09/77 10/11/77 2d:00h:45m The planned manual docking with Salyut 6 failed.
Soyuz 26 Yuri Romanenko (up), Georgi 12/10/77 01/16/78 37d:10h:06m First Salyut 6 occupation, returned in Soyuz 27;
Grechkon (up), Vladimir Dzhanibekov Progress 1 resupplies the orbiting complex.
(down), Oleg Makarov (down)
Soyuz 27 Vladimir Dzhanibekov (up), Oleg 01/10/78 03/16/78 64d:22h:53m First space station dual occupancy; returned in
Makarov (up), Yuri Romanenko Soyuz 26.
(down), Georgi Grechkon (down)
Soyuz 28 Aleksey Gubarev, Vladimir Remek 03/02/78 03/10/78 7d:22h:16m First international crew (USSR and
Czechoslovakia), to Salyut 6.
Soyuz 29 Vladimir Kovalyonok (up), Aleksandr 06/15/78 09/03/78 79d:15h:24m First 100+ day flight, to Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz
Ivanchenkov (up), Vladimir Bykovsky 31: Progress 2, 3 & 4 resupply the orbiting
(down), Sigmund Jaehn (down) complex.
Soyuz 30 Pyotr Klimuk, Miroslav Hermaszewski 06/27/78 07/05/78 7d:22h:03m 2nd international crew (USSR and Poland), to
Salyut 6.
Soyuz 31 Vladimir Bykovsky (up), Sigmund 08/26/78 11/02/78 67d:20h:13m 3rd international crew (USSR and East Germany),
Jaehn (up), Vladimir Kovalyonok to Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 29.
(dwon), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
(down)
Soyuz 32 Vladimir Lyakhov (up), Valeri Ryumin 02/25/79 06/13/79 108d:04h:25m Cosmonauts board Salyut 6; endurance record;
(up), unmanned (down) returned in Soyuz 34: Progress 5, 6 and 7 resupply
the orbiting complex.
Soyuz 33 Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Georgi Ivanov 04/10/79 04/12/79 1d:23h:01m 4th international crew (USSR and Bulgaria); failed
to dock with Salyut 6 after engine failure.
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Soyuz 34 Unmanned (up), Vladimir Lyakhov 06/06/79 08/19/79 73d:18h:17m Delivered for Soyuz 32 crew return to compensate
(down), Valeri Ryumin (down) for Soyuz 33 failure.
Soyuz 35 Leonid Popov (up), Valeri Ryumin 04/19/80 06/03/80 55d:01h:28m 4th Salyut 6 long stay; endurance record; returned
(up), Valeri Kubasov (down), Bertalan in Soyuz 37: Progress 8, 9 and 11 resupply the
Farkas (down) orbiting complex.
Soyuz 36 Valeri Kubasov (up), Bertalan Farkas 05/26/80 07/31/80 65d:20h:54m 5th international crew (USSR and Hungary), to
(up), Viktor Gorbatko (down), Pham Salyut 6; returned to Soyuz 35.
Tuan (down)
Soyuz T-2 Yuri Malyshev, Vladimir Aksyonov 06/05/80 06/09/80 3d:22h:20m First manned space flight of the new spacecraft;
manual docking with Salyut 6.
Soyuz 37 Viktor Gorbatko (up), Pham Tuan 07/23/80 10/11/80 79d:15h:17m 6th international crew (USSR and Vietnam), to
(up), Leonid Popov (down), Valeri Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 36.
Ryumin (down)
Soyuz 38 Yuri Romanenko, Arnaldo Tamayo 09/18/80 09/26/80 7d:20h:43m 7th international crew (USSR and Cuba), to Salyut
Mendez 6.
Soyuz T-3 Leonid Kizim, Oleg Makarov, Gennadi 11/27/80 12/10/80 12d:19h:08m Resumption of 3-man flights; Salyut 6 repair work:
Strekalov Progress 11 resupplies the orbiting complex.
Soyuz T-4 Vladimir Kovalyonok, Viktor Savinykh 03/12/81 05/26/81 74d:17h:37m Last Salyut 6 long-stay; 50th Soviet/100th
spaceman: Progress 12 resupplies the orbiting
complex.
Soyuz 39 Vladimir Dzhanibekov, 03/22/81 03/30/81 7d:20h:42m 8th international crew (USSR and Mongolia), to
Jugderdemidiyn Gurragcha Salyut 6.
STS-1/Columbia John Young, Robert Crippen 04/12/81 04/14/81 2d:06h:22m First space shuttle flight; orbital test flight; some
thermal tiles lost.
Soyuz 40 Leonid Popov, Dumitru Prunariu 05/14/81 05/22/81 7d:21h:42m 9th international crew (USSR and Romania), to
Salyut 6; last flight of old Soyuz design.
STS-2/Columbia Joseph Engle, Richard Truly 11/12/81 11/14/81 2d:06h:14m First reuse of space shuttle; 2nd orbital test flight;
test of Canadian robot arm (RMS); 5-day mission
halved by fuel cell fault.
STS-3/Columbia Jack Lousma, Gorden Fullerton 03/22/82 03/30/82 8d:00h:06m Third orbital test flight; first experiements;
payload: astronomy; landing delayed 1 day by
Salyut 7 Unmanned space station 04/19/82 02/07/91 3216d 6th space station; occupied for 812 days by 10
crews.
Soyuz T-5 Anatoli Berezovoi (up), Valentin 05/13/82 08/27/82 106d:05h:06m First Salyut 7 occupation + long stay; returned in
Lebedev (up), Leonid Popov (down), Soyuz T-7: Progress 13, 14, 15 and 16 resupply the
Aleksandr Serebrov (down), Svetlana orbiting complex.
Savitskaya (down)
Soyuz T-6 Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Aleksandr 06/24/82 07/02/82 7d:21h:51m 10th international crew (USSR and France), to
Ivanchenkov, Jean-Loup Chretien Salyut 7.
STS-4/Columbia Thomas Mattingly, Henry Hartsfield 06/27/82 07/04/82 7d:01h:11m Last orbital test flight; first concrete runway
landing; SRBs lost; beginning of operations;
payload: military.
Soyuz T-7 Leonid Popov (up), Aleksandr 08/19/82 12/10/82 113d:01h:51m Salyut 7 visit; Savitskaya is 2nd woman in space;
Serebrov (up), Svetlana Savitskaya returned in Soyuz T-5.
(up), Anatoli Berezovoi (down),
Valentin Lebedev (down)
STS-5/Columbia Vance Brand, Robert Overmyer, 11/11/82 11/16/82 5d:02h:15m First operational space shuttle mission; first 4-
Joseph Allen, William Lenoir person crew; depolyed 2 communications satellites
(COMSATs); EVA cancelled.
STS-6/Challenger Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Donald 04/04/83 04/09/83 5d:00h:25m First Challenger flight; first shuttle EVA; Tracking &
Peterson, Story Musgrave Data Relay Satellite (TDRS).
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Soyuz T-8 Vladimir Titov, Gennadi Strekalov, 04/20/83 04/22/83 2d:00h:18m Failed to dock with Salyut 7 for long stay; radar
Aleksandr Serebrov failed and manual approach aborted.
STS-7/Challenger Robert Crippen, Frederick Hauck, 06/18/83 06/24/83 6d:02h:25m Ride first U.S. woman in space; first 5-person crew;
John Fabian, Sally Ride, Norman 2 COMSATs, German platform SPAS-1.
Thagard
Soyuz T-9 Vladimir Lyakhov, Aleksandr 06/27/83 11/23/83 149d:10h:46m Salyut 7 long stay; 2 EVAs added 2 solar panels:
Pavlovich Aleksandrov Progress 18 resupplies the orbiting complex.
STS-8/Challenger Richard Truly, Daniel Brandenstein, 08/30/83 09/05/83 6d:01h:10m Bluford first U.S. black in space; first night launch/
Dale Gardner, Guion Bluford, William landing; 1 communications satellite deployed.
Thornton
Soyuz T-10A Vladimir Titov, Gennadi Strekalov 09/26/83 09/26/83 05m:13s Launchpad fire, first use of escape tower. Descent
module re-used by T-15.
STS-9/Columbia John Young, Brewster Shaw, Owen 11/28/83 12/08/83 10d:07h:48m Merbold first German on U.S. mission; first 6-
Garriott, Robert Parker, Byron person crew; first Spacelab Mission (SL-1).
Lichtenberg, Ulf Merbold
41-B/Challenger Vance Brand, Robert Gibson, Bruce 02/03/84 02/11/84 7d:23h:17m First untethered EVA & testing of MMU jetpack; first
McCandless, Ronald McNair, Robert Kennedy Space Center landing; 2 COMSATs.
Stewart
Soyuz T-10B Leonid Kizim (up), Vladimir Solovyov 02/08/84 04/11/84 62:22h:41m First long-stay triple crew, to Salyut 7; 6 EVAs
(up), Oleg Atkov (up), Yuri Malyshev totalling 22h:56m; returned in Soyuz T-11.
(down), Gennadi Strekalov (down),
Rakesh Sharma (down)
Soyuz T-11 Yuri Malyshev (up), Gennadi 04/03/84 10/02/84 181d:21h:49m 11th international crew (USSR and India), to Salyut
Strekalov (up), Rakesh Sharma (up), 7; returned in Soyuz T-10B.
Leonid Kizim (down), Vladimir
Solovyov (down), Oleg Atkov (down)
41-C/Challenger Robert Crippen, Francis Scobee, 04/06/84 04/13/84 6d:23h:41m First in-orbit satellite retrieval/repair (SMM); LDEF
George Nelson, James van Hoften, deployment.
Terry Hart
Soyuz T-12 Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana 07/17/84 07/29/84 11d:19h:15m Salyut 7 visit; Savitskaya makes first EVA by a
Savitskaya, Igor Volk woman (3h:45m).
41-D/Discovery Henry Hartsfield, Michael Coats, 08/30/84 09/05/84 6d:00h:57m First flight of Discovery; first commercial payload
Judith Resnik, Steven Hawley, specialist; 3 communications satellites.
Richard Mullane, Charles Walker
41-G/Challenger Robert Crippen, Jon McBride, Kathryn 10/05/84 10/13/84 8d:05h:25m Garneau first Canadian in space; first 7-person
Sullivan, Sally Ride, David Leestma, crew; first U.S. woman EVA; first 2-women flight;
Marc Garneau, Paul Scully-Power Environmental satellite ERBS.
51-A/Discovery Frederick Hauck, David Walker, Anna 11/08/84 11/16/84 7d:23h:46m First satellite retrieval/return; 2 COMSATs.
Fisher, Dale Gardner, Joseph Allen
51-C/Discovery Thomas Mattingly, Loren Shriver, 01/24/85 01/27/85 3d:01h:34m First mission dedicated to Dept. of Defense (DOD);
Ellison Onizuka, James Buchli, Gary classified military payload deployed; 100th
Payton manned orbital mission.
51-D/Discovery Karol Bobko, Donald Williams, Rhea 04/12/85 04/19/85 6d:23h:56m Garn first U.S. senator in space; 2 COMSATs, EVA
Seddon, Jeffery Hoffman, David to repair Syncom IV satellite.
Griggs, Charles Walker, Jake Garn
51-B/Challenger Robert Overmyer, Frederick Gregory, 04/29/85 05/06/85 7d:00h:10m 2nd Spacelab science mission; 1 satellite released .
Don Lind, Norman Thagard, William
Thornton, Lodewijk van den Berg,
Taylor Wang
Soyuz T-13 Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Viktor 06/06/85 09/26/85 112d:03h:12m Reactivation of Salyut 7; Savinykh stayed with
Savinykh (up), Georgi Grechko Soyuz T-14 crew: Progress 24 resupplies the
(down) station.
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51-G/Discovery Daniel Brandenstein, John Creighton, 06/17/85 06/24/85 7d:01h:40m Salman Al-Saud first Arab in space; Baudry first
Shannon Lucid, John Fabian, Steven French person on U.S. mission; 3 communications
Nagel, Patrick Baudry, Sultan Salman satellites.
Al-Saud
51-F/Challenger Gorden Fullerton, Roy Bridges, Story 07/29/85 08/06/85 7d:22h:46m 3rd Spacelab astronomy/science mission.
Musgrave, Anthony England, Karl
Henize, Loren Acton, John-David
Bartoe
51-I/Discovery Joseph Engle, Richard Covey, James 08/27/85 09/03/85 7d:02h:18m 3 COMSATs, EVA to repair Syncom IV satellite.
van Hoften, John Lounge, William
Fisher
Soyuz T-14 Vladimir Vasyutin, Aleksandr Volkov, 09/17/85 11/21/85 64d:21h:52m Salyut 7; first mission to be ended by illness
Georgi Grechko (up), Viktor Savinykh (Vasyutin); Grechko returned with Soyuz T-13.
(down)
51-J/Atlantis Karol Bobko, Ronald Grabe, David 10/03/85 10/07/85 4d:01h:46m First flight of Atlantis; 2nd DOD mission: details
Hilmers, Robert Stewart, William classfied.
Pailes
61-A/Challenger Henry Hartsfield, Steven Nagel, 10/30/85 11/06/85 7d:00h:46m First 8-person crew; 1st German Spacelab mission
James Buchli, Guion Bluford, Bonnie (D1).
Dunbar, Reinhard Furrer, Ernst
Messerschmid, Wubbo Ockeis
61-B/Atlantis Brewster Shaw, Bryan O'Conner, 11/27/85 12/03/85 6d:21h:06m Neri first Mexican in space; 3 COMSATs, space
Mary Cleave, Sherwood Spring, Jerry structures assembly test.
Ross, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Charles
Walker
61-C/Columbia Robert Gibson, Charles Bolden, 01/12/86 01/18/86 6d:02h:05m Bill Nelson first U.S. congressman in space; 1
Franklin Chang-Diaz, Steven Hawley, COMSAT, material & astronomy experiments.
George Nelson, Robert Cenker, Bill
Nelson
51-L/Challenger Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith 01/28/86 None 01m:13s Exploded during liftoff, all were killed.
Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald
McNair, Gregory Jarvis, Christa
McAuliffe
Mir Unmanned space station 02/20/86 03/23/01 5,510d New-generation space station with 6 docking ports;
occupied by multiple crews.
Soyuz T-15 Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov 03/13/86 07/16/86 125d:00h:01m First Mir occupation; excursion to Salyut 7 5-May to
26-Jun; two Salyut EVAs totalling 8h:50m; re-used
descent module from T-10A abort.
Soyuz TM-2 Aleksandr Laveykin, Yuri Romanenko 02/05/87 07/30/87 174d:03h:26m 2nd Mir long stay; Romanenko remained at station
(up), Aleksandr Viktorenko (down), and set new endurance record; Romanenko
Mohammed Faris (down) returned in Soyuz TM-3.
Soyuz TM-3 Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, 07/22/87 12/29/87 160d:07h:17m Mir visit; Aleksandrov remained at station replacing
Aleksandr Viktorenko (up), Laveykin.
Mohammed Faris (up), Yuri
Romanenko (down), Anatoli
Levchenko (down)
Soyuz TM-4 Vladimir Titov (up), Musa Manarov 12/21/87 06/17/88 178d:22h:54m 3rd Mir long stay occupation; Titov/Manarov
(up), Anatoli Levchenko (up), Anatoliy swapped with Romanenko/Aleksandrov; endurance
Solovyov (down), Viktor Savinykh record; 3 EVAs totalling 13h:40m; returned in
(down), Aleksandr Panayotov Soyuz TM-6.
Aleksandrov (down)
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Soyuz TM-5 Anatoliy Solovyov (up), Viktor 06/07/88 09/07/88 91d:10h:46m Mir visit; all returned in Soyuz TM-4.
Savinykh (up), Aleksandr Panayotov
Aleksandrov (up), Vladimir Lyakhov
(down), Abdul Mohmand (down)
Soyuz TM-6 Vladimir Lyakhov (up), Valeri 08/29/88 12/21/88 114d:05h:34m 4th Mir long stay; physician Polyakov remained
Polyakov (up), Abdul Mohmand (up), with Titov/Manarov.
Vladimir Titov (down), Musa Manarov
(down), Jean-Loup Chretien (down)
STS-26/Discovery Frederick Hauck, Richard Covey, John 09/29/88 10/03/88 4d:01h:01m Redesigned shuttle makes first flight;
Lounge, George Nelson, David Tracking/Data Relay Satellite TDRS-C.
Hilmers
Soyuz TM-7 Aleksandr Volkov, Sergei Krikalyov, 11/26/88 04/27/89 151d:11h:08m 5th Mir long stay; Volkov/Krikalyov swapped with
Jean-Loup Chretien (up), Valeri Titov/Manarov; Chretien EVA, returned in Soyuz
Polyakov (down) TM-6; Volkov/Krikalyov in TM-7.
STS-27/Atlantis Robert Gibson, Guy Gardner, Richard 12/02/88 12/06/88 4d:09h:06m 3rd DOD mission; first Lacrosse imaging radar
Mullane, Jerry Ross, William Shepherd satellite for all-weather day/night reconnaissance.
STS-29/Discovery Michael Coats, John Blaha, James 03/13/89 03/18/89 4d:23h:40m Data Relay Satellite TDRS-D, experiments.
Bagian, James Buchli, Robert
Springer
STS-30/Atlantis David Walker, Ronald Grabe, Norman 05/04/89 05/08/89 4d:00h:58m Magellan Venus orbiter launched on IUS stage,
Thagard, Mary Cleave, Mark Lee arrived Venus Aug 1990.
STS-28/Columbia Brewster Shaw, Richard Richards, 08/08/89 08/13/89 5d:01h:01m 4th DOD mission; deployed military satellite for
James Adamson, David Leestma, relaying reconnaissance satellite imagery?
Mark Brown
Soyuz TM-8 Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr 09/05/89 02/19/90 166d:06h:58m 5th Mir long stay; received Kvant 2; 5 EVAs
Serebrov including 2 with manoeuvring backpack.
STS-34/Atlantis Donald Williams, Michael McCulley, 10/18/89 10/23/89 4d:23h:40m Galileo Jupiter orbiter launched on IUS stage,
Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid, arrived Jupiter Dec 1995.
Ellen Baker
STS-33/Discovery Frederick Gregory, John Blaha, Story 11/23/89 11/28/89 5d:00h:08m 5th DOD mission; deployed intelligence satellite?
Musgrave, Manley Carter, Kathryn
Thornton
STS-32/Columbia Daniel Brandenstein, James 01/09/90 01/20/90 10d:21h:02m Deployed 1 COMSAT, retrieved/returned Long
Wetherbee, Bonnie Dunbar, David Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF).
Low, Marsha Ivins
Soyuz TM-9 Anatoliy Solovyov, Aleksandr 02/11/90 08/09/90 179d:01h:18m 6th Mir long stay; received Kristall; two EVAs.
Balandin
STS-36/Atlantis John Creighton, John Casper, Richard 02/28/90 03/04/90 4d:10h:19m 6th DOD mission; deployed reconnaissance
Mullane, David Hilmers, Pierre Thuot satellite.
STS-31/Discovery Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Steven 04/24/90 04/29/90 5d:01h:17m Deployed Hubble Space Telescope (HST); set
Hawley, Bruce McCandless, Kathryn Shuttle altitude record of 385 miles (619 km).
Sullivan
Soyuz TM-10 Gennadi Manakov, Gennadi 08/01/90 12/10/90 130d:20h:36m 7th Mir long stay; emphasised Kristall materials
Strekalov, Toyohiro Akiyama (down) processing, one EVA.
STS-41/Discovery Richard Richards, Robert Cabana, 10/06/90 10/10/90 4d:02h:11m Ulysses solar probe launched on IUS stage.
William Shepherd, Bruce Melnick,
Thomas Akers
STS-38/Atlantis Richard Covey, Frank Culbertson, 11/15/90 11/20/90 4d:21h:55m 7th DOD mission; deployed intelligence satellite?
Robert Springer, Carl Meade, Charles
Gemar
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STS-35/Columbia Vance Brand, Guy Gardner, Jeffery 12/02/90 12/11/90 8d:23h:06m Astronomy Spacelab ASTRO, UV/X-ray telescopes.
Hoffman, John Lounge, Robert
Parker, Samuel Durrance, Ronald
Parise
Soyuz TM-11 Viktor Afanasyev, Musa Manarov, 12/02/90 05/26/91 175d:01h:51m 8th Mir long stay; 4 EVAs; Akiyama (Japan)
Toyohiro Akiyama (up), Helen returned in Soyuz TM-10.
Sharman (down)
STS-37/Atlantis Steven Nagel, Kenneth Cameron, 04/05/91 04/11/91 5d:23h:34m Deployed Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO); 2 EVAs
Jerry Ross, Jay Apt, Linda Godwin (first since 1985).
STS-39/Discovery Michael Coats, Blaine Hammond, 04/28/91 05/06/91 8d:07h:23m Infrared astronomy experiments.
Guion Bluford, Gregory Harbaugh,
Richard Hieb, Donald McMonagle,
Charles Veach
Soyuz TM-12 Anatoli Artsebarsky, Sergei Krikalyov 05/18/91 10/10/91 144d:15h:22m 9th Mir long stay; Sharman (UK) returned in Soyuz
(up), Helen Sharman (up), Toktar TM-11, Artsebarsly in TM-12, Krikalyov in TM-13; 6
Aubakirov (down), Franz Viehboeck EVAs totalling 31h:58m.
(down)
STS-40/Columbia Bryan O'Conner, Sidney Gutierrez, 06/05/91 06/14/91 9d:02h:15m First Spacelab for Life Sciences (SLS-1); first
Rhea Seddon, James Bagian, Tamara dedicated life sciences research.
Jernigan, Drew Gaffney, Millie
Hughes-Fulford
STS-43/Atlantis John Blaha, Michael Baker, Shannon 08/02/91 08/11/91 8d:21h:22m Tracking/Data Relay Satellite TDRS-E; Lucid first
Lucid, James Adamson, David Low woman to make 3 fights.
STS-48/Discovery John Creighton, Kenneth Reightler, 09/12/91 09/18/91 5d:08h:28m Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
James Buchli, Charles Gemar, Mark deployed.
Brown
Soyuz TM-13 Aleksandr Volkov, Toktar Aubakirov 10/02/91 03/25/92 175d:02h:52m 10th Mir long stay; first mission with 2 researchers;
(up), Franz Viehboeck (up), Sergei Viehboeck (Austria) & Aubakirov (Kazakh) returned
Krikalyov (down), Klaus-Dietrich in Soyuz TM-12, Volkov in TM-13; one EVA.
Flade (down)
STS-44/Atlantis Frederick Gregory, Terrence 11/24/91 12/01/91 6d:22h:52m DOD satellite, contaminations research.
Henricks, Story Musgrave, Mario
Runco, James Voss, Thomas Hennen
STS-42/Discovery Ronald Grabe, Stephen Oswald, 01/22/92 01/30/92 8d:01h:16m Spacelab International Microgravity Laboratory
Norman Thagard, David Hilmers, (IML-1).
William Readdy, Roberta Bondar, Ulf
Merbold
Soyuz TM-14 Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr 03/17/92 08/10/92 145d:14h:11m 11th Mir long stay; Flade (Germany), returned in
Kaleri, Klaus-Dietrich Flade (up), Soyuz TM-13; Viktorenko/ Kaleri in TM-14; 123m
Michel Tognini (down) EVA.
STS-45/Atlantis Charles Bolden, Brian Duffy, Kathryn 03/24/92 04/02/92 8d:22h:10m Atmospheric Lab for Applications & Science
Sullivan, David Leestma, Michael (ATLAS-1).
Foale, Byron Lichtenberg, Dirk
Frimout
STS-49/Endeavour Daniel Brandenstein, Kevin Chilton, 05/07/92 05/16/92 8d:21h:19m First Endeavour flight; 4 EVAs by 4 crew totalling
Pierre Thuot, Kathryn Thornton, duration record 60.1 manhours; first 3-person EVA;
Richard Hieb, Thomas Akers, Bruce Intelsat-VI recovery and redeployment.
Melnick
STS-50/Columbia Richard Richards, Kenneth Bowersox, 06/25/92 07/09/92 13d:19h:31m US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1); first
Bonnie Dunbar, Ellen Baker, Carl Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO); Shuttle duration
Meade, Lawrence DeLucas, Eugene record.
Trinh
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Soyuz TM-15 Anatoliy Solovyov, Sergei Avdeyev, 07/27/92 02/01/93 188d:21h:41m 12th Mir long stay; Togini (France) returned in
Michel Tognini (up) Soyuz TM-14, Solovyov/ Avdeyev in TM-15; 4 EVAs
totalling 18h:21m.
STS-46/Atlantis Loren Shriver, Andrew Allen, Jeffery 07/31/92 08/08/92 7d:23h:16m EURECA platform deployment; tether experiment
Hoffman, Franklin Chang-Diaz, TSS-1.
Claude Nicollier, Marsha Ivins, Franco
Malerba
STS-47/Endeavour Robert Gibson, Curtis Brown, Mark 09/12/92 09/20/92 7d:22h:31m 50th shuttle mission; Jemison 1st black woman in
Lee, Jan Davis, Jay Apt, Mae Jemison, space; Mohri 1st Japanese national; Lee & Davis
Mamoru Mohri 1st married couple to travel together in space; first
Japanese Spacelab (SL-J).
STS-52/Columbia James Wetherbee, Michael Baker, 10/22/92 11/01/92 9d:20h:57m Deployment of LAGEOS 2; US Microgravity Payload
Charles Veach, William Shepherd, (USMP); materials experiments.
Tamara Jernigan, Steven MacLean
STS-53/Discovery David Walker, Robert Cabana, Guion 12/02/92 12/09/92 7d:07h:21m Last DOD mission; DOD satellite deployed; laser
Bluford, James Voss, Michael Clifford experiment.
STS-54/Endeavour John Casper, Donald McMonagle, 01/13/93 01/19/93 5d:23h:39m Deployment of TDRS-F, Differential X-ray
Mario Runco, Gregory Harbaugh, Experiment (DXS), 268 min EVA.
Susan Helms
Soyuz TM-16 Gennadi Manakov, Aleksandr 01/24/93 07/22/93 179d:00h:44m 13th Mir long stay; first docking with Kristall
Polishchuk, Jean-Pierre Haignere androgynous port; two EVAs.
(down)
STS-56/Discovery Kenneth Cameron, Stephen Oswald, 04/08/93 04/17/93 9d:06h:09m Crew included the 300th human in space; Ochoa
Michael Foale, Kenneth Cockrell, 1st Hispanic woman in space; 2nd Atmospheric
Ellen Ochoa Mission ATLAS-2, SPARTAN-2.
STS-55/Columbia Steven Nagel, Terrence Henricks, 04/26/93 05/06/93 9d:23h:41m 2nd German Spacelab mission (D2); Earth
Jerry Ross, Charles Precourt, Bernard observation & astronomy experiments; Shuttle
Harris, Ulrich Walter, Hans Schlegel program exceeded 1 year aggregate flight time.
STS-57/Endeavour Ronald Grabe, Brian Duffy, David 06/21/93 07/01/93 9d:23h:46m First Spacehab; EURECA retrival; GAS; EVA.
Low, Nancy Sherlock, Peter Wisoff,
Janice Voss
Soyuz TM-17 Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Serebrov, 07/01/93 01/14/94 196d:17h:45m 14th Mir long stay; Haignere (France) returned in
Jean-Pierre Haignere (up) Soyuz TM-16, Tsibliyev/ Serebrov in TM-17; five
EVAs.
STS-51/Discovery Frank Culbertson, William Readdy, 09/12/93 09/22/93 9d:20h:12m Adv. Comsat ACTS/TOS deployed; ORFEUS-SPAS;
James Newman, Daniel Bursch, Carl EVA; first KSC night landing.
Walz
STS-58/Columbia John Blaha, Richard Searfoss, Rhea 10/18/93 11/01/93 14d:00h:14m First dissection in space; 2nd Spacelab for Life
Seddon, William McArthur, David Sciences (SLS-2); 2nd EDO, record duration.
Wolf, Shannon Lucid, Martin Fettman
STS-61/Endeavour Richard Covey, Kenneth Bowersox, 12/02/93 12/13/93 10d:19h:59m First Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; 5
Story Musgrave, Kathryn Thornton, EVAs for 4 crew totalling 35h:28m; Akers set new
Claude Nicollier, Jeffery Hoffman, U.S. EVA duration record (29h:40m).
Thomas Akers
Soyuz TM-18 Viktor Afanasyev, Yuri Usachyov, 01/08/94 07/09/94 182d:00h:27m 15th Mir long stay; physicain Polyakov remained
Valeri Polyakov (up) aboard for record duration, returning with Soyuz
TM-20.
STS-60/Discovery Charles Bolden, Kenneth Reightler, 02/03/94 02/11/94 8d:07h:10m Krikalyov was first Russian on U.S. shuttle; attempt
Jan Davis, Ronald Sega, Franklin to deploy the Wake Shield Facility (a device to
Chang-Diaz, Sergei Krikalyov create vacuums in space) failed; Spacehab 2.
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STS-62/Columbia John Casper, Andrew Allen, Pierre 03/04/94 03/18/94 13d:23h:18m Microgravity Payload USMP-2; OAST-2; SSBUV/A;
Thuot, Charles Gemar, Marsha Ivins DEE; 3rd EDO.
STS-59/Endeavour Sidney Gutierrez, Kevin Chilton, Linda 04/09/94 04/20/94 11d:05h:50m First flight of Space Radar Lab; mapped 20% of
Godwin, Jay Apt, Michael Clifford, Earth surface in three dimensions; environmental
Thomas Jones studies conducted; CONCAP-IV; GAS; NIH-
Experiments; Endeavour made record 412
manoeuvres.
Soyuz TM-19 Yuri Malenchenko, Talgat Musabayev, 07/01/94 11/04/94 125d:22h:54m 16th Mir long stay, two EVAs.
Ulf Merbold (down)
STS-65/Columbia Robert Cabana, James Halsell, 07/08/94 07/23/94 14d:17h:56m 2-day flight of International Microgravity
Richard Hieb, Carl Walz, Leroy Chiao, Laboratory IML-2; more than 80 experiments
Donald Thomas, Chiaki Mukai conducted; 4th EDO, record duration.
STS-64/Discovery Richard Richards, Blaine Hammond, 09/09/94 09/20/94 10d:22h:51m Laser experiment LITE; SPARTAN-3; SAFER (EVA);
Jerry Linenger, Susan Helms, Carl ROMPS.
Meade, Mark Lee
STS-68/Endeavour Michael Baker, Terrence Wilcutt, 09/30/94 10/11/94 11d:05h:47m Space Radar Lab SRL-2; GAS; Stamps; secondary
Thomas Jones, Steven Smith, Daniel payloads.
Bursch, Peter Wisoff
Soyuz TM-20 Aleksandr Viktorenko, Yelena 10/04/94 03/22/95 169d:05h:22m 17th Mir long stay; Merbold (ESA) returned with
Kondakova, Ulf Merbold (up), Valeri Soyuz TM-19.
Polyakov (down)
STS-66/Atlantis Donald McMonagle, Curtis Brown, 11/03/94 11/14/94 10d:22h:35m Atmospheric Mission ATLAS-3; CRISTA/SPAS;
Ellen Ochoa, Scott Parazynski, Joseph ESCAPE-2.
Tanner, Jean-Francois Clervoy
STS-63/Discovery James Wetherbee, Eileen Collins, 02/03/95 02/11/95 8d:06h:30m Rendezvous with Mir, Spacehab 3, first female pilot
Michael Foale, Janice Voss, Bernard (Collins); 2nd Cosmonaut; SPARTAN-4; EVA.
Harris, Vladimir Titov
STS-67/Endeavour Stephen Oswald, William Gregory, 03/02/95 03/18/95 16d:15h:10m 2nd UV Astronomy Spacelab (ASTRO-2); 5th EDO,
Tamara Jernigan, John Grunsfeld, record duration.
Wendy Lawrence, Ronald Parise,
Samuel Durrance
Soyuz TM-21 Vladimir Dezhurov (up), Gennadi 03/14/95 09/11/95 181d:00h:41m 18th Mir long stay; Thagard first NASA researcher;
Strekalov (up), Norman Thagard (up), all crew returning on NASA Shuttle STS-71; three
Anatoliy Solovyov (down), Nikolai EVAs.
Budarin (down)
STS-71/Atlantis Robert Gibson, Charles Precourt, 06/27/95 07/07/95 9d:19h:23m First Mir docking/crew exchange, 100th US human
Ellen Baker, Bonnie Dunbar, Gregory space flight, Spacelab carried.
Harbaugh, Anatoliy Solovyov (up),
Nikolai Budarin (up), Vladimir
Dezhurov (down), Gennadi Strekalov
(down), Norman Thagard (down)
STS-70/Discovery Terrence Henricks, Kevin Kregel, 07/13/95 07/22/95 8d:22h:21m Deployed TDRS-G; crystal growth and biological
Nancy Currie, Donald Thomas, Mary experiments.
Weber
Soyuz TM-22 Yuri Gidzenko, Sergei Avdeyev, 09/03/95 02/29/96 179d:01h:42m 20th Mir long stay; ESA researcher Reiter
Thomas Reiter performed 2 EVAs.
STS-69/Endeavour David Walker, Kenneth Cockrell, 09/07/95 09/18/95 10d:20h:30m Wake Shield Facility (2nd flight); SPARTAN; 30th
James Voss, James Newman, Michael Shuttle EVA.
Gernhardt
STS-73/Columbia Kenneth Bowersox, Kent Rominger, 10/20/95 11/05/95 15d:21h:53m Spacelab USML-2; educational experiments; 6th
Kathryn Thornton, Catherine EDO.
Coleman, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Fred
Leslie, Albert Sacco
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STS-74/Atlantis Kenneth Cameron, James Halsell, 11/12/95 11/20/95 8d:04h:32m Mir-Docking/2; delivered docking unit for future
Jerry Ross, William McArthur, Chris Shuttle missions & new solar arrays.
Hadfield
STS-72/Endeavour Brian Duffy, Brent Jett, Leroy Chiao, 01/11/96 01/20/96 8d:22h:02m Retrieved SFU Space Flyer Unit, SPARTAN/OAST
Daniel Barry, Winston Scott, Koichi Flyer, two EVAs.
Wakata
Soyuz TM-23 Yuri Onufrienko, Yuri Usachyov, 02/21/96 09/02/96 193d:19h:08m 21st Mir long stay; 6 EVAs totalling 30h:31m.
Claudie Andre-Deshays (down)
STS-75/Columbia Andrew Allen, Scott Horowitz, 02/22/96 03/09/96 15d:17h:41m Microgravity Payload USMP-3; Tether Satellite TSS-
Franklin Chang-Diaz, Maurizio Cheli, 1R; OARE; 7th EDO.
Jeffery Hoffman, Claude Nicollier,
Umberto Guidoni
STS-76/Atlantis Kevin Chilton, Richard Searfoss, Linda 03/22/96 03/31/96 9d:05h:17m Mir-Docking/3; Spacehab short module; delivered
Godwin, Michael Clifford, Ronlad Lucid for Mir stay; EVA mounted experiments on
Sega, Shannon Lucid (up) Mir's docking module.
STS-77/Endeavour John Casper, Curtis Brown, Daniel 05/19/96 05/29/96 10d:00h:40m Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE); Spacehab 4;
Bursch, Mario Runco, Marc Garneau, PAMS; SPARTAN; TEAMS.
Andrew Thomas
STS-78/Columbia Terrence Henricks, Kevin Kregel, 06/20/96 07/07/96 16d:21h:49m Life & Microgravity Science Spacelab (LMS);
Susan Helms, Richard Linnehan, SAREX-II; 8th EDO, record duration.
Charles Brady, Jean-Jacques Favier,
Robert Thirsk
Soyuz TM-24 Valeri Korzun, Aleksandr Kaleri, 08/17/96 03/02/97 196d:17h:26m 22nd Mir long stay; Andre-Deshays (France)
Claudie Andre-Deshays (up), returned in Soyuz TM-23; two EVAs.
Reinhold Ewald (down)
STS-79/Atlantis William Readdy, Terrence Wilcutt, 09/16/96 09/26/96 10d:03h:20m Mir-Docking/4; Spacehab double module; crew
Thomas Akers, Jay Apt, Carl Walz, exchange (Blaha/Lucid); Lucid set new U.S. space
John Blaha (up), Shannon Lucid endurance record (188d:4h); EVA.
(down)
STS-80/Columbia Kenneth Cockrell, Kent Rominger, 11/19/96 12/07/96 17d:15h:54m Wake Shield Facility (3rd flight); ORFEUS-SPAS II;
Tamara Jernigan, Thomas Jones, Space Experiment Module (SEM); EVA; 9th EDO,
Story Musgrave record duration.
STS-81/Atlantis Michael Baker, Brent Jett, Peter 01/12/97 01/22/97 10d:04h:56m Mir-Docking/5; Spacehab-DM; SAREX-II; crew
Wisoff, John Grunsfeld, Marsha Ivins, exchange (Linenger/Blaha).
Jerry Linenger (up), John Blaha
(down)
Soyuz TM-25 Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksander Lazutkin, 02/10/97 08/14/97 184d:22h:08m 23rd Mir long stay; Ewald (Germany) returned in
Reinhold Ewald (up) Soyuz TM-24; collision with Progress 25-Jun-97; one
EVA.
STS-82/Discovery Kenneth Bowersox, Scott Horowitz, 02/11/97 02/21/97 9d:23h:38m 2nd Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; 5
Joseph Tanner, Steven Hawley, EVAs for 4 crew totalling 33h:11m, replaced 10
Gregory Harbaugh, Mark Lee, Steven instruments.
Smith
STS-83/Columbia James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice 04/04/97 04/08/97 3d:23h:14m Microgravity Science Lab MSL-1 (returned 12 days
Voss, Michael Gernhardt, Donald early due to fuel cell problem); Reflight as STS-94.
Thomas, Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris
STS-84/Atlantis Charles Precourt, Eileen Collins, Jean- 05/15/97 05/24/97 9d:05h:21m Mir-Docking/6; Spacehab-DM; crew exchange
Francois Clervoy, Carlos Noriega, (Linenger/Foale).
Edward Lu, Yelena Kondakova,
Michael Foale (up), Jerry Linenger
(down)
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STS-94/Columiba James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice 07/01/97 07/17/97 15d:16h:46m Microgravity Science Lab MSL-1 reflight.
Voss, Michael Gernhardt, Donald
Thomas, Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris
Soyuz TM-26 Anatoliy Solovyov, Pavel Vinogradov, 08/05/97 02/19/98 197d:17h:35m 24th Mir long stay; 7 EVAs to repair damage
Leopold Eyharts (down) caused by Progress collision.
STS-85/Discovery Curtis Brown, Kent Rominger, Jan 08/07/97 08/19/97 11d:20h:28m CRISTA/SPAS II; Japanese Manipulaor (MFD); small
Davis, Robert Curbeam, Stephen payloads.
Robinson, Bjarni Tryggvason
STS-86/Atlantis James Wetherbee, Michael 09/25/97 10/06/97 10d:19h:22m Mir-Docking/7; Spacehab-DM; crew exchange
Bloomfield, Scott Parazynski, Vladimir (Foale/Wolf).
Titov, Jean-Loup Chretien, Wendy
Lawrence, David Wolf (up), Michael
Foale (down)
STS-87/Columbia Kevin Kregel, Steve Lindsey, Kalpana 11/19/97 12/05/97 15d:16h:35m Microgravity Payload USMP-4; SPARTAN-201; 2
Chawla, Winston Scott, Takao Doi, EVAs; small payloads.
Leonid Kadenyuk
STS-89/Endeavour Terrence Wilcutt, Joe Edwards, James 01/23/98 01/31/98 8d:19h:48m Mir-Docking/8; Spacehab-DM; crew exchange
Reilly, Michael Anderson, Bonnie (Wolf/Thomas).
Dunbar, Salizhan Sharipov, Andrew
Thomas (up), David Wolf (down)
Soyuz TM-27 Talgat Musabayev, Nikolai Budarin, 01/29/98 08/25/98 207d:12h:51m 25th Mir long stay; Eyharts (France) returned in
Leopold Eyharts (up), Yuri Baturin Soyuz TM-26; 5 EVAs.
(down)
STS-90/Columbia Richard Searfoss, Scott Altman, 04/17/98 05/03/98 15d:21h:51m Neurolab (16th Spacelab); bioreactor; small
Kathryn Hire, Richard Linnehan, payloads (GAS).
Dafydd Williams, Jay Buckey, James
Pawelczyk
STS-91/Discovery Charles Precourt, Dominic Gorie, 06/02/98 06/12/98 9d:19h:55m Mir-Docking/9; Spacehab-SM; returned Thomas;
Wendy Lawrence, Franklin Chang- first GAS payload.
Diaz, Janet Kavandi, Valeri Ryumin,
Andrew Thomas (down)
Soyuz TM-28 Gennadi Padalka, Sergei Avdeyev 08/13/98 02/28/99 198d:16h:31m 26th Mir long stay; Baturin returned in Soyuz TM-
(up), Yuri Baturin (up), Ivan Bella 27; Avdeyev remained aboard Mir; one EVA.
(down)
STS-95/Discovery Curtis Brown, Steve Lindsey, Scott 10/29/98 11/07/98 8d:21h:45m Spacehab-SM, SPARTAN-201; John Glenn reflight.
Parazynski, Stephen Robinson, Pedro
Duque, Chiaki Mukai, John Glenn
STS-88/Endeavour Robert Cabana, Frederick Sturckow, 12/04/98 12/16/98 11d:19h:19m 1st International Space Station (ISS) assembly
Nancy Currie, Jerry Ross, James flight 2A, Unity Module; 3 EVAs for 2 crew totalling
Newman, Sergei Krikalyov 21h:22m; first habitation of ISS.
Soyuz TM-29 Viktor Afanasyev, Jean-Pierre 02/20/99 08/28/99 188d:20h:16m 27th Mir long stay; Bella returned in Soyuz TM-28;
Haignere, Ivan Bella (up), Sergei returned Avdeyev; three EVAs.
Avdeyev (down)
STS-96/Discovery Kent Rominger, Rick Husband, Ellen 05/27/99 06/06/99 9d:19h:14m 2nd ISS assembly flight 2A.1, Spacehab-DM,
Ochoa, Tamara Jernigan, Daniel Starshine; first docking with ISS; 1 EVA for 2 crew
Barry, Julie Payette, Valeri Tokarev totalling 7h:55m.
STS-93/Columbia Eileen Collins, Jeffrey Ashby, Steven 07/23/99 07/28/99 4d:22h:50m Deployed Chandra/AXAF; first female commander
Hawley, Catherine Coleman, Michel (Collins).
Tognini
STS-103/Discovery Curtis Brown, Scott Kelly, Steven 12/20/99 12/28/99 7d:23h:12m 3rd Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; 3
Smith, Michael Foale, John Grunsfeld, EVAs for 4 crew totalling 24h:33m.
Claude Nicollier, Jean-Francois
Clervoy
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STS-99/Endeavour Kevin Kregel, Dominic Gorie, Janet 02/11/00 02/22/00 11d:05h:40m Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); used
Kavandi, Janice Voss, Mamoru Mohri, radar systems to obtain high-resolution digital
Gerhard Thiele topographic database of Earth.
Soyuz TM-30 Sergei Zalyetin, Aleksandr Kalen 04/04/00 06/16/00 72d:19h:42m 28th & final Mir long stay; reactivated Mir under
contract with MirCorp (a private concern); returned
16-Jun-00.
STS-101/Atlantis James Halsell, Scott Horowitz, Mary 05/19/00 05/29/00 9d:20h:10m 3rd ISS assembly flight 2A.2a, Spacehab-DM; 1 EVA
Weber, Jeffrey Williams, James Voss, for 2 crew totalling 6h:44m.
Susan Helms, Yuri Usachyov
STS-106/Atlantis Terrence Wilcutt, Scott Altman, 09/08/00 09/20/00 11d:19h:12m 4th ISS assembly flight 2A.2b, Spacehab-DM; 1 EVA
Daniel Burbank, Edward Lu, Richard for 2 crew totalling 6h:14m.
Mastracchio, Yuri Malenchenko, Boris
Morukov
STS-92/Discovery Brian Duffy, Pamela Melroy, Koichi 10/11/00 10/24/00 12d:21h:44m 5th ISS assembly flight 3A, PMA-3, IMAX; 4 EVAs
Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Peter Wisoff, for 4 crew totalling 27h:19m.
Michael Lopez-Alegria, William
McArthur
Soyuz TM-31 Sergei Krikalyov (up), Yuri Gidzenko 10/31/00 05/06/01 186d:21h:49m Delivered Expedition 1 crew (Shepherd, Gidzenko,
(up), William Shepherd (up), Talgat Krikalyov), first ISS extended stay totalling 136
Musabayev (down), Yuri Baturin days on ISS; returned on STS-102.
(down), Dennis Tito (down)
STS-97/Endeavour Brent Jett, Michael Bloomfield, Joseph 12/01/00 12/11/00 10d:19h:58m 6th ISS assembly flight 4A, PV Module P6; 3 EVAs
Tanner, Carlos Noriega, Marc for 2 crew totalling 19h:20m.
Garneau
STS-98/Atlantis Kenneth Cockrell, Mark Polansky, 02/07/01 02/20/01 12d:21h:21m 7th ISS assembly flight 5A, US Lab; 3 EVAs for 2
Robert Curbeam, Thomas Jones, crew totalling 19h:49m, final EVA 100th in U.S.
Marsha Ivins history.
STS-102/Discovery James Wetherbee, James Kelly, 03/08/01 03/21/01 12d:19h:51m 8th ISS assembly flight 5A.1, MPLM; delivered
Andrew Thomas, Paul Richards, Yuri Expedition 2 crew (Usachyov, Voss, Helms),
Usachyov (up), James Voss (up), returned Expedition 1 crew (Shepherd, Gidzenko,
Susan Helms (up), William Shepherd Krikalyov); 2 EVAs for 4 crew totalling 15h:17m.
(down), Yuri Gidzenko (down), Sergei
Krikalyov (down)
STS-100/Endeavour Kent Rominger, Jeffrey Ashby, Chris 04/19/01 05/01/01 11d:21h:31m 9th ISS assembly flight 6A, Canadarm2, Raffaello
Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John MPLM; 2 EVAs for 2 crew totalling 14h:50m.
Phillips, Umberto Guidoni, Yuri
Lonchakov
Soyuz TM-32 Talgat Musabayev (up), Yuri Baturin 04/28/01 10/31/01 185d:21h:23m Exchanged Soyuz TM-32 for TM-31 to serve ISS as
(up), Dennis Tito (up), Victor emergency escape vehicle; Tito first space "tourist"
Afanasyev (down), Konstantin having paid $20 million for trip.
Kozeyev (down), Claudie Haignere
(down)
STS-104/Atlantis Steve Lindsey, Charles Hobaugh, 07/12/01 07/25/01 12d:18h:37m 10th ISS assembly flight 7A, ISS Airlock.
Michael Gernhardt, James Reilly,
Janet Kavandi
STS-105/Discovery Scott Horowitz, Frederick Sturckow, 08/10/01 08/22/01 11d:21h:14m 11th ISS assembly flight 7A.1, Leonardo MPLM;
Daniel Barry, Patrick Forrester, Frank delivered Expedition 3 crew (Culbertson, Dezhurov,
Culbertson (up), Vladimir Dezhurov Tyurin), returned Expedition 2 crew (Usachyov,
(up), Mikhail Tyurin (up), Yuri Voss, Helms); 2 EVAs for 2 crew totalling 11h:45m.
Usachyov (down), James Voss
(down), Susan Helms (down)
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Soyuz TM-33 Victor Afanasyev (up), Konstantin 10/21/01 05/05/02 195d:18h:52m Exchanged Soyuz TM-33 for TM-32 to serve ISS as
Kozeyev (up), Claudie Haignere (up), emergency escape vehicle.
Yuri Gidzenko (down), Roberto Vittori
(down), Mark Shuttleworth (down)
STS-108/Endeavour Dominic Gorie, Mark Kelly, Linda 12/05/01 12/17/01 11d:19h:37m ISS utilization flight UF-1, Raffaello MPLM, GAS,
Godwin, Daniel Tani, Yuri Onufrienko MACH-1; delivered Expedition 4 crew (Onufrienko,
(up), Carl Walz (up), Daniel Bursch Walz, Bursch), returned Expedition 3 crew
(up), Frank Culbertson (down), (Culbertson, Dezhurov, Tyurin); 1 EVA for 2 crew
Vladimir Dezhurov (down), Mikhail totalling 4h:12m.
Tyurin (down)
STS-109/Columbia Scott Altman, Duane Carey, John 03/01/02 03/12/02 10d:22h:11m 4th Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission,
Grunsfeld, Nancy Currie, James Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
Newman, Richard Linnehan, Michael
Massimino
STS-110/Atlantis Michael Bloomfield, Stephen Frick, 04/08/02 04/19/02 10d:19h:44m ISS assembly flight 8A, Center Integrated Truss
Jerry Ross, Steven Smith, Ellen Assembly S0 (ITS S0), Mobile Transporter (MT).
Ochoa, Lee Morin, Rex Walheim
Soyuz TM-34 Yuri Gidzenko (up), Roberto Vittori 04/25/02 11/10/02 198d:17h:38m Exchanged Soyuz TM-34 for TM-33 to serve ISS as
(up), Mark Shuttleworth (up), Sergei emergency escape vehicle; Shuttleworth first
Zalyotin (down), Frank De Winne South African in space and 2nd space tourist.
(down), Yuri Lonchakov (down)
STS-111/Endeavour Kenneth Cockrell, Paul Lockhart, 06/05/02 06/19/02 13d:20h:36m ISS utilization flight UF-2, MPLM, Mobile Base
Franklin Chang-Diaz, Philippe Perrin, System (MBS); delivered Expedition 5 crew
Valeri Korzun (up), Sergei Treschev (Korzun, Treschev, Whitson), returned Expedition 4
(up), Peggy Whitson (up), Yuri crew (Onufrienko, Walz, Bursch).
Onufrienko (down), Carl Walz (down),
Daniel Bursch (down)
STS-112/Atlantis Jeffrey Ashby, Pamela Melroy, David 10/07/02 10/18/02 10d:19h:59m ISS assembly flight 9A, Integrated Truss Assembly
Wolf, Piers Sellers, Sandra Magnus, S1 (ITS S1), Crew Equipment Translation Aid
Fyodor Yurchikhin (CETA).
Soyuz TMA-1 Sergei Zalyotin (up), Frank De Winne 10/30/02 05/04/03 185d:22h:56m Exchanged Soyuz TMA-1 for TM-34 to serve ISS as
(up), Yuri Lonchakov (up), Nikolai emergency escape vehicle; returned Expedition 6
Budarin (down), Kenneth Bowersox crew (Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit).
(down), Donald Pettit (down)
STS-113/Endeavour James Wetherbee, Paul Lockhart, 11/24/02 12/07/02 13d:18h:49m ISS assembly flight 11A, Integrated Truss Assembly
Michael Lopez-Alegria, John P1 (ITS P1), CETA; delivered Expedition 6 crew
Herrington, Kenneth Bowersox (up), (Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit), returned Expedition 5
Nikolai Budarin (up), Donald Pettit crew (Korzun, Treschev, Whitson).
(up), Valeri Korzun (down), Sergei
Treschev (down), Peggy Whitson
(down)
STS-107/Columbia Rick Husband, William McCool, 01/16/03 02/01/03 15d:22h:20m Spacehab-DM, Freestar; Ramon first Israeli in
Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, space; orbiter broke up during reentry resulting in
David Brown, Laurel Clark, Ilan the loss of both vehicle and crew.
Ramon
Soyuz TMA-2 Yuri Malenchenko, Edward Lu, Pedro 04/26/03 10/27/03 183d:22h:47m Exchanged Soyuz TMA-2 for TMA-1 to serve ISS as
Duque (down) emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned
Expedition 7 crew (Malenchenko, Lu).
Shenzhou 5 Yang Liwei 10/15/03 10/15/03 21h:23m First Chinese manned flight (14 orbits).
Soyuz TMA-3 Aleksandr Kaleri, Michael Foale, 10/18/03 04/30/04 194d:18h:33m Exchanged Soyuz TMA-3 for TMA-2 to serve ISS as
Pedro Duque (up), Andre Kuipers emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned
(down) Expedition 8 crew (Foale, Kaleri).
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Soyuz TMA-4 Gennadi Padalka, E. Michael Fincke, 04/19/04 10/24/04 187d:21h:16m Exchanged Soyuz TMA-4 for TMA-3 to serve ISS as
Andre Kuipers (up), Yuri Shargin emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned
(down) Expedition 9 crew (Padalka, Fincke).
SpaceShipOne Michael Melvill 06/21/04 06/21/04 1h:30m First privately funded, non-government manned
space flight; suborbital reaching 328,491 feet
(100,124 m) altitude.
SpaceShipOne Michael Melvill 09/29/04 09/29/04 1h:23m First of two flights to claim Ansari X-prize;
suborbital reaching 337,569 feet (102,891 m)
altitude.
SpaceShipOne Brian Binnie 10/04/04 10/04/04 1h:27m Second of two flights to claim Ansari X-prize;
suborbital reaching 367,442 feet (111,997 m)
setting rocket-plane altitude record.
Soyuz TMA-5 Saliszan Sharipov, Leroy Chiao, Yuri 10/14/04 04/24/05 192d:19h:02m Exchanged Soyuz TMA-5 for TMA-4 to serve ISS as
Shargin (up), Roberto Vittori (down) emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned
Expedition 10 crew (Chiao, Sharipov).
Soyuz TMA-6 Sergei Krikalyov, John Phillips, 04/15/05 10/11/05 192d:19h:02m Exchanged Soyuz TMA-6 for TMA-5 to serve ISS as
Roberto Vittori (up) emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 11
crew (Krikalyov, Phillips).
STS-114/Discovery Eileen Collins, James Kelly, Stephen 07/26/05 08/09/05 13d:21h:32m ISS logistics flight LF-1, Raffaello MPLM, External
Robinson, Soichi Noguchi, Andrew Stowage Platform; test and evaluate new safety
Thomas, Wendy Lawrence, Charles procedures; 3 EVA for 2 crew totalling 20h:05m.
Camarda
Soyuz TMA-7 William McArthur, Valery Tokarev, 10/01/05 04/08/06 189d:19h:53m Exchanged Soyuz TMA-7 for TMA-6 to serve ISS as
Gregory Olsen (up), Marcos Pontes emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 12
(down) crew (McArthur, Tokarev); Olsen 3rd space tourist.
Shenzhou 6 Fei Junlong, Nie Haishen 10/12/05 10/16/05 4d:19h:32m Second Chinese manned flight; first two man crew
(76 orbits).
Soyuz TMA-8 Pavel Vinogradov, Jeffrey Williams, 03/30/06 TBD TBD Exchanged Soyuz TMA-8 for TMA-7 to serve ISS as
Marcos Pontes (up) emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 13
crew (Vinogradov, Williams).
STS-121/Discovery Steve Lindsey, Mark Kelly, Mike 07/04/06 07/17/06 12d:18h:38m ISS assembly flight ULF-1.1, Leonardo MPLM,
Fossum, Lisa Nowak, Stephanie performed ISS maintenance, delivered supplies &
Wilson, Piers Sellers, Thomas Reiter crewmember Reiter, tested new safety equipment
(up) & procedures; 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 21h:29m.
STS-115/Atlantis Brent Jett, Christopher Ferguson, 09/09/06 09/21/06 11d:19h:07m SS assembly flight 12A, installed the P3/P4
Joseph Tanner, Daniel Burbank, integrated truss and second set of solar arrays with
Steven macLean, Heidemarie rotary joint; 3 EVA for 4 crew totaling 20h:19m.
Stefanyshyn-Piper
Soyuz TMA-9 Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria, 09/18/06 Planned: Planned: To exchange Soyuz TMA-9 for TMA-8 to serve ISS
Anousheh Ansari (up) 03/19/07 182d as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition
14 crew (Lopez-Alegria, Tyurin). Ansari first female
space tourist.
STS-116/Discovery Mark Polansky, William Oefelein, 12/09/06 12/22/06 12d: 20h:44m Delivery of P5 ITS to ISS; electrical power system
Robert Curbeam Nicholas Patrick, re-wiring to enable permanent electrical buses;
Christer Fuglesang, Joan retraction of P6-4B solar array wing in unplanned
Higginbotham, Sunita Williams (up), EVA; 4 EVA for three crew totaling 25h:45m.
Thomas Reiter (down)
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