STS-44

Name: Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-44
Start: 1991-11-24T23:44:00+00:00
End: 1991-11-25T00:44:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39A

Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Sun • Nov 24th, 1991
11:44 PM UTC

Crew

Frederick D. Gregory

Status: Retired
1/7/1941 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/29/1985
Last Flight: 11/24/1991

Frederick Drew Gregory is a former United States Air Force pilot, military engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut as well as former NASA Deputy Administrator. He also served briefly as NASA Acting Administrator in early 2005, covering the period between the departure of Sean O'Keefe and the swearing in of Michael Griffin.

Terence Henricks

Status: Retired
7/5/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/24/1991
Last Flight: 6/20/1996

Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Selected by NASA in June 1985, Henricks became an astronaut in July 1986 and served on four Space Shuttle missions.

Thomas Hennen

Status: Retired
8/17/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/24/1991
Last Flight: 11/24/1991

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Thomas John Hennen is a United States Army warrant officer and NASA astronaut who flew aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-44 as a Payload Specialist.

Mario Runco Jr.

Status: Retired
1/26/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/24/1991
Last Flight: 5/19/1996

Mario Runco Jr. is a former United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut. He is an Earth and planetary physicist.

James S. Voss

Status: Retired
3/3/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/24/1991
Last Flight: 3/8/2001

James Shelton Voss is a retired United States Army Colonel and NASA astronaut. During his time with NASA, Voss flew in space five times on board the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. He also served as deputy of Flight Operations for the Space Station Program Mission Integration and Operations Office. While participating in ISS Expedition 2, he and Susan Helms conducted an 8-hour and 56 minute spacewalk, the longest to date.

Story Musgrave

Status: Retired
8/19/1935 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/4/1983
Last Flight: 11/19/1996

Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker[2] and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees.