STS-40

Name: Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-40
Start: 1991-06-05T13:24:00+00:00
End: 1991-06-05T14:24:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39B

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Wed • Jun 5th, 1991
1:24 PM UTC

Crew

Margaret Rhea Seddon

Status: Retired
11/8/1947 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/12/1985
Last Flight: 10/18/1993

Margaret Rhea Seddon is a physician and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as mission specialist for STS-51-D and STS-40, and as payload commander for STS-58. Both before and after her career in the astronaut program, she has been active in the medical community in Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas.

James P. Bagian

Status: Retired
2/22/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 3/13/1989
Last Flight: 6/5/1991

James Philip Bagian, MD, PE is an American physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut of Armenian descent. During his career as an astronaut, he logged 337 hours of space-flight, over two missions, STS-29 (in 1989) and STS-40 (in 1991). After leaving NASA in 1995, Bagian was elected as a member of both the National Academy of Engineering and of the Institute of Medicine. Bagian is currently the Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety at the University of Michigan.

Bryan D. O'Connor

Status: Retired
9/6/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/27/1985
Last Flight: 6/5/1991

Bryan Daniel O'Connor is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut.

Sidney M. Gutierrez

Status: Retired
6/27/1951 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/5/1991
Last Flight: 4/4/1994

Sidney McNeill Gutierrez is a former NASA astronaut.

Tamara E. Jernigan

Status: Retired
5/7/1959 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/5/1991
Last Flight: 5/27/1999

Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.

F. Drew Gaffney

Status: Retired
6/9/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 6/5/1991
Last Flight: 6/5/1991

Francis Andrew "Drew" Gaffney is an American doctor. He previously worked for NASA and participated in the STS-40 Space Life Sciences (SLS 1) Space Shuttle mission in 1991 as a payload specialist. The SLS-1 mission crew completed over 18 experiments in nine days, bringing back more medical data than any previous NASA flight. He is currently a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University.

Millie Hughes-Fulford

Status: Deceased
12/21/1945 - 2/4/2021
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/5/1991
Last Flight: 6/5/1991

Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford was an American medical investigator, molecular biologist and former NASA astronaut who flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.

Mission

STS-40

STS-40 was the eleventh launch of Columbia and carried the Spacelab module for Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1), the fifth Spacelab mission and the first dedicated to biology. It was also the first mission to carry three women crew members.