STS-63

Jim Wetherbee

• Birthday: 11/27/1952
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 01/09/1990
• Last Flight: 11/24/2002

James Donald "Wxb" Wetherbee is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and N...

Eileen Collins

• Birthday: 11/19/1956
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 02/03/1995
• Last Flight: 07/26/2005

Eileen Marie Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and a retired United States Air Force colonel. A former military instructor ...

Bernard Harris

• Birthday: 06/26/1956
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 04/26/1993
• Last Flight: 02/03/1995

Bernard Anthony Harris Jr. is a former NASA astronaut. On February 9, 1995, Harris became the first African American to perfo...

Janice E. Voss

• Birthday: 10/08/1956
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 06/21/1993
• Last Flight: 02/11/2000

Janice Elaine Voss was an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. She flew in space five times, jointly holding the record fo...

Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov

• Birthday: 01/01/1947
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: Russia
• First Flight: 04/20/1983
• Last Flight: 09/26/1997

Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Титов; born 1 January 1947 in Sretensk, Zaba...

Michael Foale

• Birthday: 01/06/1957
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 03/24/1992
• 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...

Mission

STS-63

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $450,000,000

STS-63 was the first mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from launch pad 39B on 3 February 1995 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Location

Launch Complex 39B

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39B has witnessed the launch of 58 rockets, including 57 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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