STS-34

Donald E. Williams

• Birthday: 02/13/1942
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/12/1985
• Last Flight: 10/18/1989

Captain Donald Edward Williams was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut....

Michael J. McCulley

• Birthday: 08/04/1943
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/18/1989
• Last Flight: 10/18/1989

Michael James "Mike" McCulley is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, metallurgical engineer, ...

Ellen S. Baker

• Birthday: 04/27/1953
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/18/1989
• Last Flight: 06/27/1995

Ellen Louise Shulman Baker, M.D., M.P.H. is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Baker serves as Chief of the Educatio...

Shannon Lucid

• Birthday: 01/14/1943
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/17/1985
• Last Flight: 03/22/1996

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid is an American biochemist and a retired NASA astronaut. At one time, she held the record for the ...

Franklin Chang Díaz

• Birthday: 04/05/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/12/1986
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz is a Costa Rican Chinese American mechanical engineer, physicist, former NASA astronaut. He is th...

Mission

STS-34 (Galileo)

• Type: Planetary Science
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-34 was the thirty-first shuttle mission and the fifth for Atlantis. It deployed the Jupiter-bound Galileo probe.

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39B has witnessed the launch of 58 rockets, including 57 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 264 rocket launches.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Rocket

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS). Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011.

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