STS-73

Ken Bowersox

• Birthday: 11/14/1956
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• 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 ...

Kent Rominger

• Birthday: 08/07/1956
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/20/1995
• Last Flight: 04/19/2001

Kent Vernon "Rommel" Rominger is an American former astronaut, former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson...

Albert Sacco

• Birthday: 05/03/1949
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/20/1995
• Last Flight: 10/20/1995

Albert Sacco Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American chemical engineer who flew as a Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Co...

Frederick W. Leslie

• Birthday: 12/19/1951
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/20/1995
• Last Flight: 10/20/1995

Fred Weldon Leslie is an American scientist who flew on the NASA STS-73 Space Shuttle mission as a payload specialist.

Catherine Coleman

• Birthday: 12/14/1960
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/20/1995
• Last Flight: 12/15/2010

Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a former NASA ...

Kathryn C. Thornton

• Birthday: 08/17/1952
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 11/23/1989
• Last Flight: 10/20/1995

Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21...

Michael López-Alegría

• Birthday: 05/30/1958
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/20/1995
• Last Flight: 01/18/2024

Michael López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Spac...

Mission

STS-73

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

STS-73 was a Space Shuttle program mission, during October–November 1995, on board the space shuttle Columbia. The mission was the second mission for the United States Microgravity Laboratory. The crew, who spent 16 days in space, were broken up into 2 teams, the red team and the blue team. The mission also included several Detailed Test Objectives or DTO's.

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39B has witnessed the launch of 58 rockets, including 57 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 257 rocket launches.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Rocket

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.

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