STS-50
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102
Lockheed Space Operations Company
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.
Mission
STS-50
STS-50 (U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1) was a United States Space Shuttle mission, the 12th mission of the Columbia orbiter.
Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
206 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
Agency
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: LSOC
Country: USA
