Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-96

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-96

Launch Complex 39B
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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STS-96

STS-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.

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Space Shuttle Discovery


Serial OV-103

Launch Crew Count 7

Status Retired

Landing Time 1999-06-06T06:02:00+0000


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Crew

Kent Rominger

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1956-08-07

Status Retired

Type Government


Rick Husband

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1957-07-12

Deceased 2003-02-01

Status Lost In Flight

Type Government


Daniel T. Barry

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1953-12-30

Status Retired

Type Government


Ellen Ochoa

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1958-05-10

Status Retired

Type Government


Julie Payette

Mission Specialist

Nationality Canadian

Date Of Birth 1963-10-20

Status Retired

Type Government


Tamara E. Jernigan

Mission Specialist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1959-05-07

Status Retired

Type Government


Valeri Tokarev

Mission Specialist

Nationality Russian

Date Of Birth 1952-10-29

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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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.

International Space Station

The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.

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