STS-84
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102
United Space Alliance
Rocket Launch Video
Crew

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...
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.