STS-7

Robert Crippen

• Birthday: 09/11/1937
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/12/1981
• Last Flight: 10/05/1984

Robert Laurel Crippen is an American retired naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and retired astronaut...

Frederick "Rick" Hauck

• Birthday: 04/11/1941
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/18/1983
• Last Flight: 09/29/1988

Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA ast...

John M. Fabian

• Birthday: 01/28/1939
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/18/1983
• Last Flight: 06/17/1985

John McCreary Fabian is a former NASA astronaut, Air Force officer, and director who flew two space shuttle missions and on t...

Sally Ride

• Birthday: 05/26/1951
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/18/1983
• Last Flight: 10/05/1984

Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut, physicist, and engineer. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and becam...

Norman E. Thagard

• Birthday: 07/03/1943
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/18/1983
• Last Flight: 03/14/1995

Norman Earl Thagard (born July 3, 1943), (Capt, USMC, Ret.), is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer an...

Mission

STS-7

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

STS-7 was the second mission for the Space Shuttle Challenger. It deployed several satellites into orbit. It was the first mission scheduled to land at Kennedy Space Center however it had to divert to Edwards Air Force Base due to bad weather.
STS-7 carried Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 208 rockets, including 207 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 266 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.

Learn more about the Space Shuttle