STS-90
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102
United Space Alliance
Crew

Richard M. Linnehan
Status: Retired
9/19/1957 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/20/1996
Last Flight: 3/11/2008
Richard Michael Linnehan is an American veterinarian and a former NASA astronaut.

Richard A. Searfoss
Status: Deceased
6/5/1956 - 9/29/2018
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/18/1993
Last Flight: 4/17/1998
Richard Alan Searfoss was an American aviator who was United States Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut and test pilot.

Scott Altman
Status: Retired
8/15/1959 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/17/1998
Last Flight: 5/11/2009
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman is a retired United States Navy Captain, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Dafydd Williams
Status: Retired
5/16/1954 -
Nationality: Canadian
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/17/1998
Last Flight: 8/8/2007
Dafydd Rhys "Dave" Williams OC (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian physician, public speaker and a retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two space shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight, STS-118 in August 2007, was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks, becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combined for a total duration of 17 hours and 47 minutes.

Kathryn P. Hire
Status: Retired
8/26/1959 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/17/1998
Last Flight: 2/8/2010
Kathryn Patricia "Kay" Hire is a NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve who has flown aboard two Space Shuttle missions.

Jay C. Buckey
Status: Retired
6/6/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 4/17/1998
Last Flight: 4/17/1998
Jay Clark Buckey, Jr. (born June 6, 1956, in New York City) is an American physician and astronaut who flew aboard one space shuttle mission (STS-90) as a Payload Specialist.

James A. Pawelczyk
Status: Retired
9/20/1960 -
Nationality: American
Type: Payload Specialist
First Flight: 4/17/1998
Last Flight: 4/17/1998
James Anthony "Jim" Pawelczyk (born September 20, 1960) is an American researcher of physiology and Kinesiology who flew aboard the NASA STS-90 Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist.
Mission
STS-90
STS-90 was a 1998 Space Shuttle mission flown by the Space Shuttle Columbia. The 16-day mission marked the last flight of the European Space Agency’s Spacelab laboratory module, which had first flown on Columbia on STS-9, and was also the last daytime landing for Columbia.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
217 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 – 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.