STS-73

Crew

Kathryn C. Thornton

Status: Retired
8/17/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
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 hours of extravehicular activity. She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, currently a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

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.

Kent Rominger

Status: Retired
8/7/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/20/1995
Last Flight: 4/19/2001

Kent Vernon "Rommel" Rominger is an American former astronaut, former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center, and a Captain in the United States Navy. Rominger holds the Space Shuttle Orbiter flight time record with 1610 hours on type. He joined ATK Launch Systems Group in 2006 as Vice President of Advanced Programs.

Catherine Coleman

Status: Retired
12/14/1960 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
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 astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.

Michael López-Alegría

Status: Active
5/30/1958 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/20/1995
Last Flight: 4/8/2022

Michael López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record and having the third longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007.

Frederick W. Leslie

Status: Retired
12/19/1951 -
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
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.

Albert Sacco

Status: Retired
5/3/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
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 Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995.

Rocket

Space Shuttle – National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Family: Space Shuttle
• Length: 56.1 m
• Diameter: 8 m
• Launch Mass: 2030 T
• Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 27500 kg

The Space Shuttle was manufactured by National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the first launch on 1981-04-12. Space Shuttle has 133 successful launches and 2 failed launches with a total of 135 launches. 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.

Agency

Lockheed Martin Space Operations – LMSO

• Type: Commercial
• Abbreviation: LMSO
• Country: USA