STS-60

Charles Bolden

• Birthday: 08/19/1946
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/12/1986
• Last Flight: 02/03/1994

Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is a former Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former ...

Kenneth S. Reightler Jr.

• Birthday: 03/24/1951
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/12/1991
• Last Flight: 02/03/1994

Kenneth Stanley Reightler Jr. is a former NASA astronaut.

Ronald M. Sega

• Birthday: 12/04/1952
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1994
• Last Flight: 03/22/1996

Ronald "Ron" Michael Sega is professor of systems engineering and Vice President for Energy and the Environment at ...

Jan Davis

• Birthday: 11/01/1953
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/12/1992
• Last Flight: 08/07/1997

Nancy Jan Davis is a former American astronaut. A veteran of three space flights, Davis logged over 673 hours in space. She i...

Sergei Krikalev

• Birthday: 08/27/1958
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 11/26/1988
• Last Flight: 04/15/2005

Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (Russian: Серге́й Константинович Крикалёв, also transliterated a...

Franklin Chang Díaz

• Birthday: 04/05/1950
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/12/1986
• Last Flight: 06/05/2002

Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz is a Costa Rican Chinese American mechanical engineer, physicist, former NASA astronaut. He is th...

Mission

STS-60

• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-60 was the first mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried Sergei K. Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on 3 February 1994 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission carried the Wake Shield Facility experiment and a SPACEHAB module into orbit, and carried out a live bi-directional audio and downlink link-up with the cosmonauts aboard the Russian space station Mir.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 199 rockets, including 198 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 257 rocket launches.

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

Rocket

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Shuttle

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.

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