STS-96Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103Lockheed Space Operations Company Launch Status Success Thu · May 27th, 1999 6:49 AM EDT Watch Online Crew Tamara E. Jernigan Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 5/7/1959 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 6/5/1991 Last Flight: 5/27/1999Tamara Elizabeth "Tammy" Jernigan, Ph.D. is an American scientist and former NASA astronaut and a veteran of five shuttle missions. Ellen Ochoa Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 5/10/1958 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/8/1993 Last Flight: 4/8/2002Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and the current Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. In 1993 Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman in the world to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery. Daniel T. Barry Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 12/30/1953 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 1/11/1996 Last Flight: 8/10/2001Daniel Thomas Barry is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program Survivor: Panama, as well as on BattleBots on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009–2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. He is also a co-founder of Fellow Robots, a telepresence robotics company and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics. Kent Rominger CommanderStatus: Retired 8/7/1956 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 10/20/1995 Last Flight: 4/19/2001Kent Vernon "Rommel" Rominger is an American former astronaut, former NASA Chief of the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center, and a Captain in the United States Navy. Rominger holds the Space Shuttle Orbiter flight time record with 1610 hours on type. He joined ATK Launch Systems Group in 2006 as Vice President of Advanced Programs. Rick Husband PilotStatus: Lost In Flight 7/12/1957 - 2/1/2003 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 5/27/1999 Last Flight: 1/16/2003Rick Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) (Colonel, USAF) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He traveled into space twice: as Pilot of STS-96 and Commander of STS-107. He and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Julie Payette Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 10/20/1963 - Nationality: Canadian Type: Government First Flight: 5/27/1999 Last Flight: 7/15/2009Julie Payette CC CMM COM CQ CD (born October 20, 1963) is the current Governor General of Canada, the 29th since Canadian Confederation. Before assuming office, she was a businesswoman, former member of the Canadian Astronaut Corps, and engineer. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space. She served as chief astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), and has served as capsule communicator at NASA Mission Control Center in Houston. Valeri Tokarev Mission SpecialistStatus: Retired 10/29/1952 - Nationality: Russian Type: Government First Flight: 5/27/1999 Last Flight: 10/1/2005Valeri Ivanovich Tokarev (Russian: Валерий Иванович Токарев; born October 29, 1952) is a Russian Air Force Colonel and test cosmonaut at the Yuri A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Tokarev traveled to space twice, and has performed two career spacewalks, before retiring in June 2008. MissionSTS-96Type: Human ExplorationSTS-96 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first shuttle flight to dock with the International Space Station. The shuttle carried the Spacehab module in the payload, filled with cargo for station outfitting. STS-96 launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 27 May 1999 at 06:49:42 AM EDT. 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