STS-114

Eileen Collins

• Birthday: 11/19/1956
• Role: Commander
• 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 ...

James M. Kelly

• Birthday: 05/14/1964
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/08/2001
• Last Flight: 07/26/2005

James McNeal "Vegas" Kelly is a NASA Astronaut and a retired Colonel of the United States Air Force. He twice serve...

Charles Camarda

• Birthday: 05/08/1952
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 07/26/2005
• Last Flight: 07/26/2005

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Camarda is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut who flew his first mission into space...

Soichi Noguchi

• Birthday: 04/15/1965
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Japan
• First Flight: 07/26/2005
• Last Flight: 11/16/2020

Soichi Noguchi (野口 聡一 Noguchi Sōichi, born 15 April 1965 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and...

Andy Thomas

• Birthday: 12/18/1951
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 05/19/1996
• Last Flight: 07/26/2005

Andrew "Andy" Sydney Withiel Thomas, AO is an Australian-born American aerospace engineer and a NASA astronaut. He ...

Stephen Robinson

• Birthday: 10/26/1955
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/07/1997
• Last Flight: 02/08/2010

Stephen Kern Robinson is a former NASA astronaut.

Wendy B. Lawrence

• Birthday: 07/02/1959
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/02/1995
• Last Flight: 07/26/2005

Wendy Barrien Lawrence is a retired United States Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astro...

Mission

STS-114

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

STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Discovery launched at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC), 26 July 2005. The launch, 907 days (approx. 29 months) after the loss of Columbia, was approved despite unresolved fuel sensor anomalies in the external tank that had prevented the shuttle from launching on 13 July, its originally scheduled date.

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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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 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.