List of Space Shuttle crews - Wikipedia Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics They did not have specific crew roles, but are listed in the Payload Specialist columns for reasons of space Only two flights have carried more than seven crew members for either launch or landing
A Woman Who Reached for the Stars - GovInfo On February 3, 1995, Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle, flying the STS-114 Discovery to the Russian Mir space station On July 23, 1999, she became the first woman commander of a space shuttle mission, the STS-93 Columbia
Discovery: Champion of the Space Shuttle Fleet Flying more missions than any other shuttle, Discovery carried out every type of mission NASA had to offer, spending a total of 365 days in space, and checking off many firsts in
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum Discovery flew every type of mission the orbiters were intended to carry out Its crews made major contributions to history through these missions including: The number of missions Discovery carried out, more than any other space shuttle orbiter The total number of days Discovery spent in space
30 August 1984 - This Day in Aviation The Mission Commander was Henry W Hartsfield, Jr , making his second space flight Shuttle Pilot Michael L Coats was on his first Three Mission Specialists, Richard M Mullane, Steven A Hawley, Judith A Resnick, and Payload Specialist Charles D Walker, were all on their first space flight
Space Shuttle Discovery - Wikipedia Discovery performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions, and also carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit among other satellites Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis
List of Space Shuttle crews - National Aeronautics and Space . . . This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by mission Abbreviations: ISS = Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics