STS-35

Name: Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-35
Start: 1990-12-02T06:49:00+00:00
End: 1990-12-02T07:49:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39B

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Sun • Dec 2nd, 1990
6:49 AM UTC

Crew

Vance D. Brand

Status: Retired
5/9/1931 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 7/15/1975
Last Flight: 12/2/1990

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.

Guy Gardner

Status: Retired
1/6/1948 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 12/2/1988
Last Flight: 12/2/1990

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.

Robert A. Parker

Status: Retired
12/14/1936 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/28/1983
Last Flight: 12/2/1990

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.

Ronald A. Parise

Status: Deceased
5/24/1951 - 5/9/2008
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 12/2/1990
Last Flight: 3/2/1995

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.

Samuel T. Durrance

Status: Deceased
9/17/1943 - 5/5/2023
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 12/2/1990
Last Flight: 3/2/1995

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

John M. Lounge

Status: Deceased
6/28/1946 - 3/1/2011
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/27/1985
Last Flight: 12/2/1990

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).

Jeffrey Hoffman

Status: Retired
11/2/1944 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/12/1985
Last Flight: 2/22/1996

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.

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.