STS-56Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103Lockheed Space Operations Company Launch Status Success Thu ยท Apr 8th, 1993 1:29 AM EDT Watch Online Crew Stephen S. Oswald PilotStatus: Retired 6/30/1951 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/22/1992 Last Flight: 3/2/1995Stephen Scot Oswald is a former NASA astronaut. Michael Foale Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 1/6/1957 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 3/24/1992 Last Flight: 10/18/2003Colin 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 CommanderStatus: Retired 11/29/1949 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/5/1991 Last Flight: 11/12/1995Kenneth Donald is a retired American naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut. Kenneth Cockrell Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 4/9/1950 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/8/1993 Last Flight: 6/5/2002Kenneth Dale "Taco" Cockrell is an American astronaut and a veteran of five space shuttle missions. Ellen Ochoa Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 5/10/1958 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/8/1993 Last Flight: 4/8/2002Ellen 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. MissionSTS-56Type: Earth ScienceSTS-56 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform special experiments. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 8 April 1993. LocationLaunch Complex 39BKennedy Space Center, FL, USA185 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. RocketSpace Shuttle Discovery OV-103Length: 38.1 meters Diameter: 8.4 meters First Launch: August 30, 1984Space 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. AgencyLockheed Space Operations CompanyType: Commercial Abbreviation: LSOCCountry: USA View Rocket Launch Schedule