STS-90

Richard A. Searfoss

• Birthday: 06/05/1956
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 10/18/1993
• Last Flight: 04/17/1998

Richard Alan Searfoss was an American aviator who was United States Air Force colonel, NASA astronaut and test pilot.

Scott Altman

• Birthday: 08/15/1959
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 04/17/1998
• Last Flight: 05/11/2009

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.

James A. Pawelczyk

• Birthday: 09/20/1960
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 04/17/1998
• Last Flight: 04/17/1998

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.

Jay C. Buckey

• Birthday: 06/06/1956
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 04/17/1998
• Last Flight: 04/17/1998

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.

Dafydd Williams

• Birthday: 05/16/1954
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Canadian
• First Flight: 04/17/1998
• Last Flight: 08/08/2007

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

• Birthday: 08/26/1959
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 04/17/1998
• Last Flight: 02/08/2010

Kathryn Patricia “Kay” Hire is a NASA astronaut and Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve who has flown aboard two Space Shuttle missions.

Richard M. Linnehan

• Birthday: 09/19/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: American
• First Flight: 06/20/1996
• Last Flight: 03/11/2008

Richard Michael Linnehan is an American veterinarian and a former NASA astronaut.

STS-90

• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

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.

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39B has witnessed the launch of 58 rockets, including 57 orbital launch attempts, while Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 232 rocket launches.

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.

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.