STS-75

Andrew M. Allen

• Birthday: 08/04/1955
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/31/1992
• Last Flight: 02/22/1996

Andrew Michael "Andy" Allen is a retired American astronaut. A former Marine aviator and lieutenant colonel, he wor...

Scott Horowitz

• Birthday: 03/24/1957
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/22/1996
• Last Flight: 08/10/2001

Scott Jay "Doc" Horowitz is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of four space shuttle missions. Horowitz was...

Maurizio Cheli

• Birthday: 05/04/1959
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Italy
• First Flight: 02/22/1996
• Last Flight: 02/22/1996

Maurizio Cheli (born 4 May 1959) is an Italian air force officer, a European Space Agency astronaut and a veteran of one NASA...

Umberto Guidoni

• Birthday: 08/18/1954
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: Italy
• First Flight: 02/22/1996
• Last Flight: 04/19/2001

Umberto Guidoni (born 18 August 1954 in Rome) is an Italian astrophysicist, science writer and a former ESA astronaut, being ...

Claude Nicollier

• Birthday: 09/02/1944
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Switzerland
• First Flight: 07/31/1992
• Last Flight: 12/20/1999

Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight ...

Jeffrey Hoffman

• Birthday: 11/02/1944
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/12/1985
• Last Flight: 02/22/1996

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. H...

Franklin Chang Díaz

• Birthday: 04/05/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/12/1986
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz is a Costa Rican Chinese American mechanical engineer, physicist, former NASA astronaut. He is th...

Mission

STS-75

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

STS-75 was a United States NASA Space Shuttle mission, the 19th mission of the Columbia orbiter.

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 266 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.

Learn more about the Space Shuttle