Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 | STS-93
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-93
STS-93 marked the 95th launch of the Space Shuttle, the 26th launch of Columbia, and the 21st night launch of a Space Shuttle. Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle Commander on this flight. Its primary payload was the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Space Shuttle Columbia
Serial OV-102
Launch Crew Count 5
Status Destroyed
Landing Time 1999-07-28T03:20:00+0000
Crew
Eileen Collins
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1956-11-19
Status Retired
Type Government
Jeffrey Ashby
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1954-06-16
Status Retired
Type Government
Catherine Coleman
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1960-12-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Michel Tognini
Mission Specialist
Nationality French
Date Of Birth 1949-09-30
Status Retired
Type Government
Steven Hawley
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1951-12-12
Status Retired
Type Government
Space Shuttle
Height 56.10 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 28200 kN
Diameter 8.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 27500 kg
Liftoff Mass 2030 Tonnes
Launch Success 133
Consecutive Success 22
Maiden Flight 1981-04-12
Launch Failures 2
Programs
NASA Large Strategic Science Missions
NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science divisions.
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
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