STS-5
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102
Rockwell International
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.
Robert F. Overmyer
Status: Deceased
7/14/1936 - 3/22/1996
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/11/1982
Last Flight: 4/29/1985
Robert Franklyn "Bob" Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. He was born in Lorain, Ohio, but considered Westlake, Ohio his hometown. Overmyer was selected by the United States Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966. Upon cancellation of this program in 1969, he became a NASA astronaut and served support crew duties for the Skylab program and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. In 1976, he was assigned to the Space Shuttle program, and flew as pilot on STS-5 in 1982, and as commander on STS-51-B in 1985. He was selected as a lead investigator into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and retired from NASA in 1986. Ten years later, Overmyer died in Duluth, Minnesota while testing the Cirrus VK-30 composite homebuilt aircraft.
William B. Lenoir
Status: Deceased
3/14/1939 - 8/26/2010
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/11/1982
Last Flight: 11/11/1982
William Benjamin "Bill" Lenoir, Ph.D. was an American electrical engineer and a NASA astronaut.
Joseph P. Allen
Status: Retired
6/27/1937 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/11/1982
Last Flight: 11/8/1984
Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV, Ph.D. is a former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.
Allen is married to the former Bonnie Jo Darling of Elkhart, Indiana. Their children are David Christopher, born September 1968 and Elizabeth Darling, born May 1972.
Mission
STS-5
Type: Communications
STS-5 was the first operational flight of the Space Shuttle and it deployed a 10 satellite into orbit. It carried four crew members.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
222 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
Agency
Rockwell International – ROI
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: ROI
- Country: USA
