STS-50

Richard N. Richards

• Birthday: 08/24/1946
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 08/08/1989
• Last Flight: 09/09/1994

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.

Ken Bowersox

• Birthday: 11/14/1956
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 06/25/1992
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

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.

Eugene H. Trinh

• Birthday: 09/14/1950
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: American Vietnamese
• First Flight: 06/25/1992
• Last Flight: 06/25/1992

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.

Lawrence J. DeLucas

• Birthday: 07/11/1950
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 06/25/1992
• Last Flight: 06/25/1992

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.

Carl J. Meade

• Birthday: 11/16/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 11/15/1990
• Last Flight: 09/09/1994

Carl Joseph Meade is a former NASA astronaut.

Ellen S. Baker

• Birthday: 04/27/1953
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 10/18/1989
• Last Flight: 06/27/1995

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.

Bonnie J. Dunbar

• Birthday: 03/03/1949
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 10/30/1985
• Last Flight: 01/23/1998

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.

STS-50

• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-50 (U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1) was a United States Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter.

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 186 rockets, including 185 orbital launch attempts, while Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 244 rocket launches.

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.