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.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Serial OV-103
Launch Crew Count 7
Status Retired
Landing Time 1999-06-06T06:02:00+0000
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
Programs
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.
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.
