STS-28

Name: Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-28
Start: 1989-08-08T12:37:00+00:00
End: 1989-08-08T13:37:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39B

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Tue • Aug 8th, 1989
12:37 PM UTC

Crew

David Leestma

Status: Retired
5/6/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/5/1984
Last Flight: 3/24/1992

David Cornell Leestma is a former American astronaut and retired Captain in the United States Navy.

Brewster H. Shaw

Status: Retired
5/16/1945 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/28/1983
Last Flight: 8/8/1989

Brewster Hopkinson Shaw Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and former executive at Boeing. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006.[1]

Shaw is a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and has logged 533 hours of space flight. He was Pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia in November 1983, Commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis in November 1985 and Commander of Columbia in August 1989.

Following the Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986, he supported the Roger’s Presidential Commission[2] investigating the accident. Shaw subsequently led the Space Shuttle Orbiter return-to-flight team chartered to enhance the safety of the vehicles’ operations.

Shaw worked as a manager at NASA until 1996 when he left the agency, retired from the Air Force and went to work in the private sector as an aerospace executive.

Richard N. Richards

Status: Retired
8/24/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/8/1989
Last Flight: 9/9/1994

Richard Noel "Dick" Richards is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, chemical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.

James C. Adamson

Status: Retired
3/3/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/8/1989
Last Flight: 8/2/1991

James Craig Adamson is a former NASA astronaut and retired Colonel of the United States Army. He is married with 3 children. James Adamson flew on two missions, STS-28 and STS-43, and completed 263 orbits and 334 hours in space. After retiring from NASA, he was recruited by Allied Signal (later merged with Honeywell) where he retired in 2001. Adamson has logged over 3,000 hours in over 30 different types of helicopters and airplanes.