STS-35Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 Lockheed Space Operations Company Launch Status Success Sun · Dec 2nd, 1990 1:49 AM EST Watch Online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZhWXJ87dY Crew Vance D. Brand Commander Status: Retired 5/9/1931 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Vance DeVoe Brand is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as Command Module Pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975, and as Commander of three Space Shuttle missions. His flight experience includes 9,669 flying hours, which includes 8,089 hours in jets, 391 hours in helicopters, 746 hours in spacecraft, and checkout in more than 30 types of military aircraft. Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, Colorado, is named in his honor. Robert A. Parker Mission Specialist Status: Retired 12/14/1936 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Robert Allan Ridley Parker is an American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a Mission Specialist on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-9 and STS-35. He has logged over 3,500 hours flying time in jet aircraft and 463 hours in space. Jeffrey Hoffman Mission Specialist Status: Retired 11/2/1944 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jeffrey Alan Hoffman is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected. John M. Lounge Mission Specialist Status: Deceased 6/28/1946 - 3/1/2011 Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration ohn Michael "Mike" Lounge was an American engineer, a United States Navy officer, a Vietnam War veteran, and a NASA astronaut. A veteran of three Space Shuttle flights, Lounge logged over 482 hours in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-51-I (1985) and STS-26 (1988) and was the flight engineer on STS-35 (1990). Guy Gardner Pilot Status: Retired 1/6/1948 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Guy Spence Gardner is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He holds the rank of Colonel. He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35. Gardner was also the 12th president of the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades. Samuel T. Durrance Payload Specialist Status: Retired 9/17/1943 - Nationality: American Type: Payload Specialist Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist. Ronald A. Parise Payload Specialist Status: Deceased 5/24/1951 - 5/9/2008 Nationality: American Type: Payload Specialist Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ronald Anthony Parise (May 24, 1951 – May 9, 2008) was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist. Mission STS-35 Type: Astrophysics STS-35 was the tenth flight of Columbia and the 38th of the shuttle program. Its mission was devoted to astronomical observations using ASTRO-1, a spacelab observatory consisting of four telescopes. Location Launch Complex 39B Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 182 launches have been at this location. Rocket Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 Length: 38.1 meters Diameter: 8.4 meters First Launched: April 12, 1981 Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Over 22 years of service it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on February 1, 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members. The Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 rocket has been launched a total of 30 times with 29 successful and 1 failed launches. Agency Lockheed Space Operations Company Type: Commercial Abbreviation: LSOC Administration: Founded: Launchers: Spacecraft: Country: USA View Rocket Launch Schedule