STS-37
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Crew
Jerry L. Ross
Status: Retired
1/20/1948 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/27/1985
Last Flight: 4/8/2002
Jerry Lynn Ross is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the joint record holder for most spaceflights (a record he shares with Franklin Chang-Diaz). His papers, photographs and many personal items are in the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives at Purdue University. He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame during ceremonies in May 2014.
Ross is the author of Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer (Purdue University Press, 2013) with John Norberg. In March 2014 it was announced "Spacewalker" will be available in a French translation through the specialist aerospace publisher Altipresse.
Fellow astronaut Chris Hadfield describes Ross in his autobiography, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, as "the embodiment of the trustworthy, loyal, courteous and brave astronaut archetype."
Steven R. Nagel
Status: Deceased
10/27/1946 - 8/21/2014
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/17/1985
Last Flight: 4/26/1993
Steven Ray Nagel was an American astronaut, aeronautical and mechanical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot.
Kenneth D. Cameron
Status: Retired
11/29/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/5/1991
Last Flight: 11/12/1995
Kenneth Donald is a retired American naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut.
Linda M. Godwin
Status: Retired
7/2/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/5/1991
Last Flight: 12/5/2001
Linda Maxine Godwin Ph.D. is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut. Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career, Godwin completed four space flights and logged over 38 days in space. Godwin also served as the Assistant to the Director for Exploration, Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Since retiring from NASA, she accepted the position of Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri.
Jerome Apt
Status: Retired
4/28/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/5/1991
Last Flight: 9/16/1996
Jerome "Jay" Apt III, Ph.D. (born April 28, 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Before he became an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Pioneer Venus 1978 space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the solar system from ground-based observatories.
Mission
STS-37
Type: Astrophysics
STS-37 was the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis with the primary obective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The mission featured two spacewalks, the first since 1985.
Location
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
205 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
Agency
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: LSOC
Country: USA
