STS-31 (Hubble)

Loren Shriver

• Birthday: 09/23/1944
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/24/1985
• Last Flight: 07/31/1992

Loren James Shriver is a former NASA astronaut, aviator, and a retired US Air Force Colonel.

Charles Bolden

• Birthday: 08/19/1946
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/12/1986
• Last Flight: 02/03/1994

Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is a former Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former ...

Bruce McCandless II

• Birthday: 06/08/1937
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1984
• Last Flight: 04/24/1990

Bruce McCandless II was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first ...

Kathryn D. Sullivan

• Birthday: 10/03/1951
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/05/1984
• Last Flight: 03/24/1992

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, s...

Steven Hawley

• Birthday: 12/12/1951
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/30/1984
• Last Flight: 07/23/1999

Steven Alan Hawley is a former NASA astronaut who flew on five U.S. Space Shuttle flights. He is professor of physics and ast...

Mission

STS-31 (Hubble)

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

STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the space shuttle program. Discovery's tenth mission deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.

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 258 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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