STS-81
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104
United Space Alliance
Crew
Michael A. Baker
- Birthday: 10/27/1953
- Role: Commander
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 08/02/1991
- Last Flight: 01/12/1997
Michael Allen Baker is a retired captain in the United States Navy, former NASA astronaut, and the International Space Station Program Manager for International and Crew Operations, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. He is responsible for the coordination of program operations, integration and flight crew training and support activities with the International Partners.
Brent W. Jett Jr.
- Birthday: 10/05/1958
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 01/11/1996
- Last Flight: 09/09/2006
Brent Ward Jett Jr. is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.
Jerry M. Linenger
- Birthday: 01/09/1955
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 09/09/1994
- Last Flight: 01/12/1997
Jerry Michael Linenger is a retired Captain in the United States Navy Medical Corps, and a former NASA astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle and Space Station Mir.
Peter Wisoff
- Birthday: 08/16/1958
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 06/21/1993
- Last Flight: 10/11/2000
Peter Jeffrey Kelsay Wisoff is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. Wisoff qualified as mission specialist and flew in four manned Space Shuttle missions, with his first launch in 1993 and his last in 2000.
John M. Grunsfeld
- Birthday: 10/10/1958
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 03/02/1995
- Last Flight: 05/11/2009
John Mace Grunsfeld is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and has served as NASA Chief Scientist. His academic background includes research in high energy astrophysics, cosmic ray physics and the emerging field of exoplanet studies with specific interest in future astronomical instrumentation. After retiring from NASA in 2009, he served as the Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. In January 2012, he returned to NASA and served as associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). Grunsfeld announced his retirement from NASA in April 2016.
Marsha Ivins
- Birthday: 04/15/1951
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 01/09/1990
- Last Flight: 02/07/2001
Marsha Sue Ivins is an American former astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions.
Mission
STS-81
- Type: Human Exploration
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
- Launch Cost: $450,000,000
STS-81 was a January 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station.
Location
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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 232 rocket launches.
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.
Agency
United Space Alliance
United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.