STS-70

Name: Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-70
Start: 1995-07-13T13:41:00+00:00
End: 1995-07-13T14:41:00+00:00
Location: Launch Complex 39B

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103

Lockheed Space Operations Company

Launch Status

Success

Thu • Jul 13th, 1995
1:41 PM UTC

Crew

Terence Henricks

Status: Retired
7/5/1952 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/24/1991
Last Flight: 6/20/1996

Terence Thomas "Tom" Henricks is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. Selected by NASA in June 1985, Henricks became an astronaut in July 1986 and served on four Space Shuttle missions.

Kevin R. Kregel

Status: Retired
9/16/1956 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 7/13/1995
Last Flight: 2/11/2000

Kevin Richard Kregel is an American former astronaut, and former member of the Space Launch Initiative Project at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Mary Ellen Weber

Status: Retired
1/1/1962 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 7/13/1995
Last Flight: 5/19/2000

Mary Ellen Weber is an American executive, scientist, aviator, speaker, and a former NASA astronaut.

Donald A. Thomas

Status: Retired
5/6/1955 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 7/8/1994
Last Flight: 7/1/1997

Donald Alan Thomas, Ph.D. is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.

Nancy J. Currie-Gregg

Status: Retired
12/29/1958 -
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 6/21/1993
Last Flight: 3/1/2002

Nancy Jane Currie-Gregg is an engineer, United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. Currie-Gregg has served in the United States Army for over 22 years and holds the rank of colonel. With NASA, she has participated in four space shuttle missions: STS-57, STS-70, STS-88, and STS109, accruing 1,000 hours in space. She currently holds an appointment as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Mission

STS-70

Type: Communications

STS-70 was the 21st flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and the last of 7 shuttle missions to carry a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). This was the first shuttle mission controlled from the new mission control center room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. STS-70 was also the first flight of the new Block 1 orbiter main engine, designed to improve both engine performance and safety.