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STS-84

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102

United Space Alliance

Launch Status
Success

Crew

Michael Foale

Michael Foale

Status: Retired
1/6/1957 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 3/24/1992
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, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. He still holds the cumulative-time-in-space record for a UK citizen.

Jean-François Clervoy

Jean-François Clervoy

Status: Active
11/19/1958 -
Nationality: French
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/3/1994
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 three NASA Space Shuttle missions.

Eileen Collins

Eileen Collins

Status: Retired
11/19/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 2/3/1995
Last Flight: 7/26/2005

Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. She was awarded several medals for her work. Colonel Collins has logged 38 days 8 hours and 20 minutes in outer space. Collins retired on May 1, 2006, to pursue private interests, including service as a board member of USAA.

Charles J. Precourt

Charles J. Precourt

Status: Retired
6/29/1955 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/26/1993
Last Flight: 6/2/1998

Charles Joseph Precourt is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Notably, he piloted or commanded several missions which involved docking with the Russian Mir space station and was heavily involved in Russian/US Space relations as well as the International Space Station collaboration. He retired from the USAF with the rank of Colonel.

Carlos I. Noriega

Carlos I. Noriega

Status: Retired
10/8/1959 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 5/15/1997
Last Flight: 12/1/2000

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

Ed Lu

Ed Lu

Status: Retired
7/1/1963 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 5/15/1997
Last Flight: 4/26/2003

Edward Tsang "Ed" Lu (simplified Chinese: 卢杰; traditional Chinese: 盧傑; pinyin: Lú Jié) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. He flew on two Space Shuttle flights, and made an extended stay aboard the International Space Station.

In 2007, Lu retired from NASA to become the program manager of Google's Advanced Projects Team. In 2002, while still at NASA, Lu co-founded the B612 Foundation, dedicated to protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes, later serving as its chairman. As of 2014, he is currently its chief executive officer (CEO).

Yelena Kondakova

Yelena Kondakova

Status: Retired
3/30/1957 -
Nationality: Russian
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/3/1994
Last Flight: 5/15/1997

Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва; born March 30, 1957) was the third Soviet/Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station. Kondakova's second flight was as a mission specialist on the United States Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-84 in May 1997. She was the last Russian female in space until her successor cosmonaut Elena Serova flew to the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 September 2014.

Mission

STS-84

Type: Human Exploration

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

Trajectory

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Mission patch for STS-84

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

219 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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

United Space Alliance – USA

  • 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.

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