STS-35
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Rocket Launch Video
Crew

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...
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.