STS-29

Michael Coats

• Birthday: 01/16/1946
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/30/1984
• Last Flight: 04/28/1991

Michael Lloyd Coats is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights), raised in Riverside, California. From December 2005 to D...

John E. Blaha

• Birthday: 08/26/1942
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/13/1989
• Last Flight: 09/16/1996

John Elmer Blaha is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space miss...

James P. Bagian

• Birthday: 02/22/1952
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/13/1989
• Last Flight: 06/05/1991

James Philip Bagian, MD, PE is an American physician, engineer, and former NASA astronaut of Armenian descent. During his car...

Robert C. Springer

• Birthday: 05/21/1942
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/13/1989
• Last Flight: 11/15/1990

Robert Clyde "Bob" Springer is a retired American astronaut and test pilot who flew as a Mission Specialist on two ...

James Buchli

• Birthday: 06/20/1945
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/24/1985
• Last Flight: 09/12/1991

James Frederick Buchli is a retired United States Marine aviator and former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle mis...

Mission

STS-29

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

STS-29 was the eighth flight of Discovery and its primary mission was to deploy the TDRS-D 10 satellite. It also deployed eight secondary payloads.

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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