STS-41
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Crew

William Shepherd
Status: Retired
7/26/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 12/2/1988
Last Flight: 10/31/2000
William McMichael "Bill" Shepherd is an American former Navy SEAL, aerospace, ocean, and mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut who served as Commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the International Space Station. He is also a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Richard N. Richards
Status: Retired
8/24/1946 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 8/8/1989
Last Flight: 9/9/1994
Richard Noel "Dick" Richards is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, chemical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.

Robert D. Cabana
Status: Retired
1/23/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/6/1990
Last Flight: 12/4/1998
Robert Donald Cabana is the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a former NASA astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He is also a former naval flight officer and naval aviator in the United States Marine Corps.

Bruce E. Melnick
Status: Retired
12/5/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/6/1990
Last Flight: 5/7/1992
Bruce Edward Melnick is a former American astronaut and retired United States Coast Guard officer. Following retirement from NASA and the Coast Guard, he entered the aerospace industry. He served as a Vice President with the Boeing Co.'s Integrated Defense Systems group, in charge of Boeing's Florida operations at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Melnick retired in 2008 and currently resides on Merritt Island, Florida.

Thomas Akers
Status: Retired
5/20/1951 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 10/6/1990
Last Flight: 9/16/1996
Thomas Dale Akers is a former American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Mission
STS-41
Type: Heliophysics
STS-41 was the eleventh mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The four-day mission with a primary objective the launch the Ulysses probe as part of the International Solar Polar Mission.
Trajectory
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Location
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
219 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Rocket
Space Shuttle – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Family: Space Shuttle
- Length: 56.1 m
- Diameter: 8 m
- Launch Mass: 2030 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 27500 kg
The Space Shuttle was manufactured by National Aeronautics and Space Administration with the first launch on 1981-04-12. Space Shuttle has 133 successful launches and 2 failed launches with a total of 135 launches. 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.
Agency
Lockheed Space Operations Company – LSOC
- Type: Commercial
- Abbreviation: LSOC
- Country: USA