STS-26

Name: Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-26
Start: 1988-09-29T15:37:00+00:00
End: 1988-09-29T16:37:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39B

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Thu • Sep 29th, 1988
3:37 PM UTC

Crew

George Nelson

Status: Retired
7/13/1950 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/6/1984
Last Flight: 9/29/1988

George Driver "Pinky" Nelson is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and a former NASA astronaut.

Frederick "Rick" Hauck

Status: Retired
4/11/1941 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/18/1983
Last Flight: 9/29/1988

Frederick Hamilton "Rick" Hauck is a retired Captain in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot and NASA astronaut. He piloted Space Shuttle mission STS-7 and commanded STS-51-A and STS-26.

Richard O. Covey

Status: Retired
8/1/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/27/1985
Last Flight: 12/2/1993

Richard Oswalt Covey is a retired United States Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut.

John M. Lounge

Status: Deceased
6/28/1946 - 3/1/2011
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/27/1985
Last Flight: 12/2/1990

ohn Michael "Mike" Lounge was an American engineer, a United States Navy officer, a Vietnam War veteran, and a NASA astronaut. A veteran of three Space Shuttle flights, Lounge logged over 482 hours in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-51-I (1985) and STS-26 (1988) and was the flight engineer on STS-35 (1990).

David Hilmers

Status: Retired
1/28/1950 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/3/1985
Last Flight: 1/22/1992

David Carl Hilmers is a former NASA astronaut. Hilmers was selected a NASA astronaut in July 1980, and completed the initial training period in August 1981. A veteran of four space flights, he has logged over 493 hours in space.

Mission

STS-26

Type: Communications

STS-26 was the twenty-sixth space shuttle mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter Discovery. It was the return to flight mission after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was the first to have all of its crew members wear pressure suits for launch and landing since STS-4 and the first mission with bailout capability since STS-4. It was also the first all-veteran crew mission since Apollo-11 with all of its crew having flown at least on prior mission.