STS-50

Crew

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Status: Retired
3/3/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/30/1985
Last Flight: 1/23/1998

Bonnie Jeanne Dunbar is a former NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 then served as president and CEO of The Museum of Flight until April 2010. From January 2013 - December 2015, Dr. Dunbar lead the University of Houston's STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and math) and was a faculty member in the Cullen College of Engineering.[1] Currently, she is a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University and serves as Director of the Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation (IEEI), a joint entity in the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Ellen S. Baker

Status: Retired
4/27/1953 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/18/1989
Last Flight: 6/27/1995

Ellen Louise Shulman Baker, M.D., M.P.H. is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. Baker serves as Chief of the Education/Medical Branch of the NASA Astronaut Office.

Richard N. Richards

Status: Retired
8/24/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/8/1989
Last Flight: 9/9/1994

Richard Noel "Dick" Richards is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, chemical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.

Carl J. Meade

Status: Retired
11/16/1950 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/15/1990
Last Flight: 9/9/1994

Carl Joseph Meade is a former NASA astronaut.

Ken Bowersox

Status: Retired
11/14/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/25/1992
Last Flight: 11/23/2002

Kenneth Dwane "Sox" Bowersox is a United States Navy officer, and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five Space Shuttle launches and an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. When he launched on STS-73 at the age of 38 years and 11 months, he became the youngest person ever to command a Space Shuttle vehicle.

Lawrence J. DeLucas

Status: Retired
7/11/1950 -
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 6/25/1992
Last Flight: 6/25/1992

Lawrence James "Larry" DeLucas (O. D., Ph.D.) is an American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist.
DeLucas was a member of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia for STS-50 (June 25-July 9, 1992), the United States Microgravity Laboratory-1 (USML-1) Spacelab mission. Over a two-week period, the crew conducted a wide variety of experiments relating to materials processing and fluid physics. At mission conclusion, DeLucas had traveled over 5.7 million miles in 221 Earth orbits, and had logged over 331 hours in space.

Eugene H. Trinh

Status: Retired
9/14/1950 -
Nationality: American Vietnamese
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 6/25/1992
Last Flight: 6/25/1992

Eugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh (Vietnamese: Trịnh Hữu Châu, born September 14, 1950) is a Vietnamese American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist, becoming the first Vietnamese American astronaut in space.

Rocket

Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 – United Space Alliance

Family: Space Shuttle
Length: 38.1 m
Diameter: 8.4 m
Launch Mass: 2040 T
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 24400 kg

The Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 was manufactured by United Space Alliance with the first launch on 1981-04-12. Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 has 29 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 30 launches. Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Over 22 years of service it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on February 1, 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.

Agency

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: LSOC

Country: USA