STS-35

Vance D. Brand

• Birthday: 05/09/1931
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/15/1975
• Last Flight: 12/02/1990

Vance DeVoe Brand is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He ...

Guy Gardner

• Birthday: 01/06/1948
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 12/02/1988
• Last Flight: 12/02/1990

Guy Spence Gardner is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He holds the rank of Colonel. He flew as pilo...

Robert A. Parker

• Birthday: 12/14/1936
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/28/1983
• Last Flight: 12/02/1990

Robert Allan Ridley Parker is an American physicist and astronomer, former Director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet ...

Ronald A. Parise

• Birthday: 05/24/1951
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 12/02/1990
• Last Flight: 03/02/1995

Ronald Anthony Parise (May 24, 1951 – May 9, 2008) was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle...

Samuel T. Durrance

• Birthday: 09/17/1943
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 12/02/1990
• Last Flight: 03/02/1995

Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) was an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload speci...

John M. Lounge

• Birthday: 06/28/1946
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/27/1985
• Last Flight: 12/02/1990

ohn Michael "Mike" Lounge was an American engineer, a United States Navy officer, a Vietnam War veteran, and a NASA...

Jeffrey Hoffman

• Birthday: 11/02/1944
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/12/1985
• Last Flight: 02/22/1996

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. H...

Mission

STS-35

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

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

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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 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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