Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-95
Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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STS-95
STS-95 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 29 October 1998, using the orbiter Discovery. It was the 25th flight of Discovery and the 92nd mission flown since the start of the Space Shuttle program in April 1981. It was a highly publicized mission due to former Project Mercury astronaut and United States Senator John H. Glenn, Jr.'s return to space for his second space flight. At age 77, Glenn became the oldest person, to date, to go into space. This mission is also noted for inaugurating ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the U.S., with live coast-to-coast coverage of the launch. In another first, Pedro Duque became the first Spaniard in space.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 1998-11-07T17:04:00+0000
Crew
Curtis Brown
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1956-03-11
Status Retired
Type Government
Steven Lindsey
Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1960-08-24
Status Retired
Type Government
Chiaki Mukai
Payload Specialist
Nationality Japanese
Date Of Birth 1952-05-06
Status Retired
Type Government
John Glenn
Payload Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1921-07-18
Deceased 2016-12-08
Status Deceased
Type Government
Pedro Duque
Mission Specialist
Nationality Spanish
Date Of Birth 1963-03-14
Status Retired
Type Government
Scott E. Parazynski
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1961-07-28
Status Retired
Type Government
Stephen Robinson
Mission Specialist
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1955-10-26
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
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.
