STS-41

Name: Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-41
Start: 1990-10-06T11:47:00+00:00
End: 1990-10-06T12:47:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39B

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Sat • Oct 6th, 1990
11:47 AM UTC

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.