STS-84

Charles J. Precourt

• Birthday: 06/29/1955
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/26/1993
• Last Flight: 06/02/1998

Charles Joseph Precourt is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetim...

Eileen Collins

• Birthday: 11/19/1956
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1995
• Last Flight: 07/26/2005

Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. A former military instructor ...

Carlos I. Noriega

• Birthday: 10/08/1959
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 05/15/1997
• Last Flight: 12/01/2000

Carlos Ismael Noriega is a Peruvian and U.S. citizen, NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps ...

Yelena Kondakova

• Birthday: 03/30/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 10/03/1994
• Last Flight: 05/15/1997

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва; born March 30, 1957) was the ...

Ed Lu

• Birthday: 07/01/1963
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 05/15/1997
• Last Flight: 04/26/2003

Edward Tsang "Ed" Lu (simplified Chinese: 卢杰; traditional Chinese: 盧傑; pinyin: Lú Jié) is an American phy...

Jean-François Clervoy

• Birthday: 11/19/1958
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: France
• First Flight: 11/03/1994
• Last Flight: 12/20/1999

Jean-François André Clervoy (born 19 November 1958) is a French engineer and a CNES and ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of t...

Michael Foale

• Birthday: 01/06/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/24/1992
• Last Flight: 10/18/2003

Colin Michael Foale CBE is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space missions...

Mission

STS-84

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-84 was a manned spaceflight mission by Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 208 rockets, including 207 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.

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Agency

United Space Alliance

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.