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STS-58

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status
Success

Crew

John E. Blaha

John E. Blaha

Status: Retired
8/26/1942 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 3/13/1989
Last Flight: 9/16/1996

John Elmer Blaha is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir.

Blaha is married to the former Brenda I. Walters of St. Louis, Missouri. They have three grown children and four grandchildren.

Richard A. Searfoss

Richard A. Searfoss

Status: Deceased
6/5/1956 - 9/29/2018
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/18/1993
Last Flight: 4/17/1998

Richard Alan Searfoss was an American aviator who was United States Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut and test pilot.

Martin J. Fettman

Martin J. Fettman

Status: Retired
12/31/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 10/18/1993
Last Flight: 10/18/1993

Martin Joseph Fettman (B.S., D.V.M., M.S., Ph.D., Diplomate, ACVP) is an American pathologist and researcher who flew on NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-58 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as a Payload Specialist.

Margaret Rhea Seddon

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.

David Wolf

David Wolf

Status: Retired
8/23/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/18/1993
Last Flight: 7/15/2009

David Alexander Wolf is an American astronaut, medical doctor and electrical engineer. Wolf has been to space four times. Three of his spaceflights were short-duration Space Shuttle missions, the first of which was STS-58 in 1993, and his most recent spaceflight was STS-127 in 2009. Wolf also took part in a long-duration mission aboard the Russian space station Mir which lasted 128 days, and occurred during Mir EO-24. He was brought to Mir aboard STS-86 in September 1997, and landed aboard STS-89 in January 1998. In total Wolf has logged more than 4,040 hours in space. He is also a veteran of 7 spacewalks totaling 41hrs 17min in both Russian and American spacesuits.

William S. McArthur

William S. McArthur

Status: Retired
7/26/1951 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/18/1993
Last Flight: 10/1/2005

William Surles McArthur Jr. is a retired United States Army colonel and NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one expedition to the International Space Station via the Russian Soyuz capsule.

Shannon Lucid

Shannon Lucid

Status: Retired
1/14/1943 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/17/1985
Last Flight: 3/22/1996

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid is an American biochemist and a retired NASA astronaut. At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American, as well as by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Mir space station in 1996; she is the only American woman to have served aboard Mir.

Mission

STS-58

STS-58 was a mission flown by Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 18 October 1993. The missions was primarily devoted to experiments concerning the physiological effects of spaceflight.

Trajectory

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Mission patch for STS-58

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

222 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Agency

Lockheed Space Operations Company – LSOC

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: LSOC
  • Country: USA
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