STS-85

Curtis Brown

• Birthday: 03/11/1956
• Role: Commander
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 09/12/1992
• Last Flight: 12/20/1999

Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel.

Kent Rominger

• Birthday: 08/07/1956
• Role: Pilot
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 10/20/1995
• Last Flight: 04/19/2001

Kent Vernon "Rommel" Rominger is an American former astronaut, former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson...

Bjarni Tryggvason

• Birthday: 09/21/1945
• Role: Payload Specialist
• Nationality: Canada
• First Flight: 08/07/1997
• Last Flight: 08/07/1997

Bjarni Valdimar Tryggvason (born September 21, 1945) is an Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut. H...

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...

Robert Curbeam

• Birthday: 03/05/1962
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/07/1997
• Last Flight: 12/10/2006

Robert Lee Curbeam, Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy.

Curbeam graduated ...

Stephen Robinson

• Birthday: 10/26/1955
• Role: Mission Specialist
• Nationality: United States of America
• First Flight: 08/07/1997
• Last Flight: 02/08/2010

Stephen Kern Robinson is a former NASA astronaut.

Mission

STS-85

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

STS-85 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform multiple space science packages. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 7 August 1997.

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 208 rockets, including 207 orbital launch attempts. While Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 266 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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Agency

United Space Alliance

United Space Alliance (USA) is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company (LLC), equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.