STS-80
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102
United Space Alliance
Crew
Story Musgrave
Status: Retired
8/19/1935 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/4/1983
Last Flight: 11/19/1996
Franklin Story Musgrave, M.D. is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker[2] and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996 he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees.
Tamara E. Jernigan
Status: Retired
5/7/1959 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/5/1991
Last Flight: 5/27/1999
Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions.
Thomas David Jones
Status: Retired
1/22/1955 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/4/1994
Last Flight: 2/7/2001
Thomas David Jones is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four space shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996 and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48 minutes. He works as a planetary scientist, space operations consultant, astronaut speaker, and author.
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.
Kenneth Cockrell
Status: Retired
4/9/1950 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/8/1993
Last Flight: 6/5/2002
Kenneth Dale "Taco" Cockrell is an American astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions.
Mission
STS-80
Type: Astrophysics
STS-80 was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Columbia. The launch was originally scheduled for 31 October 1996, but was delayed to 19 November for several reasons. Likewise, the landing, which was originally scheduled for 5 December, was pushed back to 7 December after bad weather prevented landing for two days. The mission was the longest Shuttle mission ever flown at 17 days, 15 hours, and 53 minutes. Although two spacewalks were planned for the mission, they were both canceled after problems with the airlock hatch prevented astronauts Tom Jones and Tammy Jernigan from exiting the orbiter.
Location
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
211 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
Rocket
Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 – United Space Alliance
Family: Space Shuttle
Length: 38.1 m
Diameter: 8.4 m
Launch Mass: 2040 T
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 24400 kg
The Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 was manufactured by United Space Alliance with the first launch on 1981-04-12. Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 has 29 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 30 launches. Space 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.
Agency
United Space Alliance
Type: Commercial
Abbreviation: USA
Founded: 1995
Launchers: Space Shuttle
Country: USA
United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
