STS-32

Daniel Brandenstein

• Birthday: 01/17/1943
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/30/1983
• Last Flight: 05/07/1992

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Jim Wetherbee

• Birthday: 11/27/1952
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/09/1990
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

James Donald "Wxb" Wetherbee is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and N...

G. David Low

• Birthday: 02/19/1956
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/09/1990
• Last Flight: 06/21/1993

George David Low was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut. He was born in 1956 to Dr. George Low, the Manager...

Bonnie J. Dunbar

• Birthday: 03/03/1949
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/30/1985
• Last Flight: 01/23/1998

Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is a former NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 then served as president and CEO of ...

Marsha Ivins

• Birthday: 04/15/1951
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• 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-32

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

STS-32 was the thirty-third mission of the shuttle program and ninth of Columbia. It was the first use of Launch Pad 39A and also marked the first use of the Mobile Launcher Platform No. 3 (MLP-3) in the shuttle program. This was the longest flight of the shuttle program lasting nearly 11 days. Its primary missions were to deploy a defence 10 satellite and retrieved NASAs Long Duration Exposure Facility.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 200 rockets, including 199 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 258 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.

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