STS-92
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103
Lockheed Space Operations Company
Rocket Launch Video
Crew

Brian Duffy
- Birthday: 06/20/1953
- Role: Commander
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 03/24/1992
- Last Flight: 10/11/2000
Brian Duffy is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions.

Pamela Melroy
- Birthday: 09/17/1961
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 10/11/2000
- Last Flight: 10/23/2007
Pamela Anne Melroy is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. She served as pilot on Space Shu...

Leroy Chiao
- Birthday: 08/28/1960
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 07/08/1994
- Last Flight: 10/14/2004
Leroy Chiao is a Chinese-American engineer, former NASA astronaut, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and engineering consul...

Peter Wisoff
- Birthday: 08/16/1958
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 06/21/1993
- Last Flight: 10/11/2000
Peter Jeffrey Kelsay Wisoff is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. Wisoff qualified as mission specialist and fl...

William S. McArthur
- Birthday: 07/26/1951
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 10/18/1993
- Last Flight: 10/01/2005
William Surles McArthur Jr. is a retired United States Army colonel and NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle m...

Koichi Wakata
- Birthday: 08/01/1963
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: Japan
- First Flight: 01/11/1996
- Last Flight: 10/05/2022
Koichi Wakata (若田 光一 Wakata Kōichi, born 1 August 1963) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a vet...

Michael López-Alegría
- Birthday: 05/30/1958
- Role: Mission Specialist
- Nationality: United States of America
- First Flight: 10/20/1995
- Last Flight: 01/18/2024
Michael López-Alegría is a Spanish-American astronaut; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Spac...
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.