STS-56Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 Lockheed Space Operations Company Launch Status Success Thu ยท Apr 8th, 1993 1:29 AM EDT Watch Online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDV-0b0ss_A Crew Stephen S. Oswald Pilot Status: Retired 6/30/1951 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Stephen Scot Oswald is a former NASA astronaut. Michael Foale Mission Specialist Status: Retired 1/6/1957 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 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 Commander Status: Retired 11/29/1949 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kenneth Donald is a retired American naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut. Kenneth Cockrell Mission Specialist Status: Retired 4/9/1950 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kenneth Dale "Taco" Cockrell is an American astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions. Ellen Ochoa Mission Specialist Status: Retired 5/10/1958 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 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. Location Launch Complex 39B Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 182 launches have been at this location. Rocket Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 Length: 38.1 meters Diameter: 8.4 meters First Launched: August 30, 1984 Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the orbiters from NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date. The Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 rocket has been launched a total of 38 times with 38 successful and 0 failed launches. Agency Lockheed Space Operations Company Type: Commercial Abbreviation: LSOC Administration: Founded: Launchers: Spacecraft: Country: USA View Rocket Launch Schedule