Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-95
Lockheed Space Operations Company · Space Shuttle · Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Lockheed Space Operations Company's 63rd launch · 2nd this year · humanity's 4,276th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Oct 29, 19:19 – Oct 29, 19:19 UTC
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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.
· Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Crew
John GlennPayload Specialist · NASA
Pedro DuqueMission Specialist · ESA
Chiaki MukaiPayload Specialist · JAXA
Curtis BrownCommander · NASA
Scott E. ParazynskiMission Specialist · NASA
Steven LindseyPilot · NASA
Stephen RobinsonMission Specialist · NASA
Booster
No booster details available.
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- STS-95 launch (10-29-98) — 3210andLiftoff
