STS-78Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102Lockheed Martin Space Operations Launch Status Success Thu · Jun 20th, 1996 10:49 AM EDT Watch Online Crew Susan Helms Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 2/26/1958 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/13/1993 Last Flight: 3/8/2001Susan Jane Helms is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Helms was a crew member on five Space Shuttle missions and was a resident of the International Space Station (ISS) for over five months in 2001. While participating in ISS Expedition 2, she and Jim Voss conducted an 8-hour and 56 minute spacewalk, the world record. Terence Henricks CommanderStatus: Retired 7/5/1952 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/24/1991 Last Flight: 6/20/1996Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Selected by NASA in June 1985, Henricks became an astronaut in July 1986 and served on four Space Shuttle missions. Kevin R. Kregel PilotStatus: Retired 9/16/1956 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 7/13/1995 Last Flight: 2/11/2000Kevin Richard Kregel is an American former astronaut, and former member of the Space Launch Initiative Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Richard M. Linnehan Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 9/19/1957 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/20/1996 Last Flight: 3/11/2008Richard Michael Linnehan is an American veterinarian and a former NASA astronaut. Charles E. Brady Jr. Mission SpecialistStatus: Deceased 8/12/1951 - 7/23/2006 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/20/1996 Last Flight: 6/20/1996Charles Eldon Brady Jr. was an American physician, a Captain in the United States Navy and a NASA astronaut. He spent 16 days in space on the STS-78 flight in 1996. Brady specialized in sports medicine and worked as team physician at several universities before joining the US Navy in 1986. There he became a flight surgeon, serving with the Blue Angels from 1988-1990. In 1992 he was selected for NASA's astronaut program and completed training to prepare for space flight. After serving in the astronaut program, he returned full-time to the Navy and served as flight surgeon at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in the San Juan Islands before retiring in the Pacific Northwest. Jean-Jacques Favier Payload SpecialistStatus: Retired 4/13/1949 - Nationality: French Type: Government First Flight: 6/20/1996 Last Flight: 6/20/1996Jean-Jacques Favier (Born April 13, 1949) is a French engineer and a former CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission. Favier was due to fly aboard the Columbia mission in 2003, but later signed out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier has been Deputy Director for Space Technology and Deputy Director for Advanced Concepts and Strategy at CNES, Director of the Solidification Laboratory at the French Atomic Energy Commission and Research Program Director at the International Space University. Robert Thirsk Payload SpecialistStatus: Retired 8/17/1953 - Nationality: Canadian Type: Government First Flight: 6/20/1996 Last Flight: 5/27/2009Robert Brent Thirsk, OC OBC (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian records for the longest space flight (187 days 20 hours) and the most time spent in space (204 days 18 hours). MissionSTS-78 LocationLaunch Complex 39BKennedy Space Center, FL, USA185 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. RocketSpace Shuttle Columbia OV-102Length: 38.1 meters Diameter: 8.4 meters First Launch: April 12, 1981Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Over 22 years of service it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on February 1, 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.The Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 rocket has been launched a total of 30 times with 29 successful and 1 failed launches. AgencyLockheed Martin Space OperationsType: Commercial Abbreviation: LMSOCountry: USA View Rocket Launch Schedule