Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 | STS-93

Space Shuttle Columbia OV-102 | STS-93

Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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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.

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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.

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Space Shuttle Columbia


Serial OV-102

Launch Crew Count 5

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 1999-07-28T03:20:00+0000


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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


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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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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.

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