STS-95Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103Lockheed Space Operations Company Launch Status Success Thu · Oct 29th, 1998 2:19 PM EST Watch Online Crew Chiaki Mukai Payload SpecialistStatus: Retired 5/6/1952 - Nationality: Japanese Type: Government First Flight: 7/8/1994 Last Flight: 10/29/1998Chiaki Mukai (向井 千秋 Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan) is a Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, and was the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space. Scott E. Parazynski Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 7/28/1961 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/3/1994 Last Flight: 10/23/2007Scott Edward Parazynski is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October, 2007 – highlighted by a dramatic, unplanned EVA to repair a live solar array. In May 2016 he was inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame. He retired from NASA in March 2009 to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities in the private sector, and he is currently the CEO of a technology start-up. He is the first person to have both flown in space and summited Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Curtis Brown CommanderStatus: Retired 3/11/1956 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 9/12/1992 Last Flight: 12/20/1999Curtis Lee "Curt" Brown Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel. Stephen Robinson Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 10/26/1955 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/7/1997 Last Flight: 2/8/2010Stephen Kern Robinson is a former NASA astronaut. Steven Lindsey PilotStatus: Retired 8/24/1960 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 11/19/1997 Last Flight: 2/24/2011Steven Wayne Lindsey is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. Lindsey served as Chief of the NASA Astronaut Office from September 2006 until October 2009. Pedro Duque Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 3/14/1963 - Nationality: Spanish Type: Government First Flight: 10/29/1998 Last Flight: 10/18/2003Pedro Francisco Duque Duque, OF, OMSE (Madrid, 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and aeronautics engineer, currently serving as Spain's Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities. He was the first Spanish astronaut. Duque underwent training in both Russia and the United States. His first spaceflight was as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle mission STS-95, during which Duque supervised ESA experimental modules. In October 2003, Duque visited the International Space Station on board of a Soyuz TMA Ship for several days during a crew changeover. The scientific program of this visit was called by ESA/Spain Misión Cervantes. John Glenn Payload SpecialistStatus: Deceased 7/18/1921 - 12/8/2016 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 2/20/1962 Last Flight: 10/29/1998Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio. MissionSTS-95 LocationLaunch Complex 39BKennedy Space Center, FL, USA185 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. RocketSpace Shuttle Discovery OV-103Length: 38.1 meters Diameter: 8.4 meters First Launch: August 30, 1984Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the orbiters from NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date.The Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 rocket has been launched a total of 38 times with 38 successful and 0 failed launches. AgencyLockheed Space Operations CompanyType: Commercial Abbreviation: LSOCCountry: USA View Rocket Launch Schedule