STS-56

Name: Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-56
Start: 1993-04-08T05:29:00+00:00
End: 1993-04-08T06:29:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39B

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Thu • Apr 8th, 1993
5:29 AM UTC

Crew

Stephen S. Oswald

Status: Retired
6/30/1951 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 1/22/1992
Last Flight: 3/2/1995

Stephen Scot Oswald is a former NASA astronaut.

Michael Foale

Status: Retired
1/6/1957 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 3/24/1992
Last Flight: 10/18/2003

Colin Michael Foale CBE is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space missions, and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17 April 2008, he held the record for most time spent in space by a US citizen: 374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes. He still holds the cumulative-time-in-space record for a UK citizen.

Kenneth D. Cameron

Status: Retired
11/29/1949 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/5/1991
Last Flight: 11/12/1995

Kenneth Donald is a retired American naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut.

Kenneth Cockrell

Status: Retired
4/9/1950 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/8/1993
Last Flight: 6/5/2002

Kenneth Dale "Taco" Cockrell is an American astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions.

Ellen Ochoa

Status: Retired
5/10/1958 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/8/1993
Last Flight: 4/8/2002

Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and the current Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. In 1993 Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery.

Mission

STS-56

Type: Earth Science

STS-56 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform special experiments. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 8 April 1993.