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ASCAN1984 Member Posts: 1049 From: County Down, Nothern Ireland Registered: Feb 2002	posted 09-15-2007 01:15 PM What is the record for the amount of times two or more people have flown together more than once, e.g. Tom Jones flew with Ken Cockrell twice? Excluding STS-94 in which the entire 83 crew flew together, what is the record for the number of crew members flying together on a spaceflight?
Mike Dixon Member Posts: 1397 From: Kew, Victoria, Australia Registered: May 2003	posted 09-15-2007 07:09 PM This might not be the definitive list but I have to say I was surprised at just how many instances there were of two astronauts sharing two flights... and the one instance of three flights. STS-41G / STS-45 David Leestma / Kathryn Sullivan STS-51I / STS-26 Dick Cover / John Lounge STS-51J / STS-42 Ron Grabe / Dave Hilmers STS-61C / STS-60 Charles Bolden / Franklin Chang Diaz STS-36 / STS-62 John Casper / Pierre Thuot STS-35 / STS-67 Sam Durrance / Ron Parise STS-37 / STS-59 Jay Apt / Linda Godwin STS-39 / STS-54 Greg Harbaugh / Don McMonagle STS-46 / STS-75 Andrew Allen / Claude Nicollier STS-48 / STS-85 Jan Davis / Curt Brown STS-51 / STS-108 Dan Bursch / Carl Walz STS-91 / STS-99 Dominic Gorie / Janet Kavandi STS-65 / STS-83 / STS-94 Jim Halsell / Don Thomas ...and of course your mention of Ken Cockrell and Tom Jones on STS-80 and STS-98.
John Charles Member Posts: 339 From: Houston, Texas, USA Registered: Jun 2004	posted 09-15-2007 07:17 PM Excellent list by Mike! One small corection: STS-47/Spacelab-J, not STS-48.
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000	posted 09-15-2007 09:21 PM Also: STS-70 and STS-78, Henricks (CDR) and Kregel (PLT)
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000	posted 09-15-2007 09:25 PM And if you want to add pre-Shuttle: Borman / Lovell (GT-7, Apollo 8) Stafford / Cernan (GT-9, Apollo 10) Conrad / Gordon (GT-11, Apollo 12)
lewarren Member Posts: 269 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001	posted 09-16-2007 09:27 AM STS-85 / STS-95 Brown Robinson
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000	posted 09-16-2007 10:45 AM J. Kelly / A. Thomas, STS-102 and STS-114 I'm gonna stretch it here slightly... A. Thomas and W. Lawrence - STS-91 (return trip only) and STS-114.
Michael Cassutt Member Posts: 358 From: Studio City CA USA Registered: Mar 2005	posted 09-16-2007 11:48 AM Throughout the Shuttle era, one of the factors chief astronauts (or flight crew ops directors) take into account when making up crew is the desirability of putting a couple of crew members together for a second time, especially a CDR or PLT with an MS. See Cooper's book on 41-G, LIFTOFF, for discussion of Ride's assignment to another Crippen crew. (Oops, there's another one for the list -- Crippen/Ride on STS-7, and on 41-G...)
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000	posted 09-16-2007 12:52 PM STS-46 / STS-75, Andrew Allen / Claude Nicollier... Along with Hoffman and Chang-Diaz.
Aztecdoug Member Posts: 1405 From: Huntington Beach Registered: Feb 2000	posted 09-16-2007 02:47 PM STS-88 / STS-109, James Newman and Nancy Currie.
mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005	posted 09-16-2007 04:24 PM I don't know if this will be some sort of record, but STS-109 and STS-125 (when it flies) will have had three common crew members on both missions: Scott Altman John Grunsfeld Mike Massimino
sikotic19 Member Posts: 80 From: Chattanooga, TN, USA Registered: Jul 2001	posted 09-17-2007 06:17 AM One more to add. STS-53 and STS-69 Dave Walker and Jim Voss. Also the entire ISS-2 crew flew on STS-101 before launching on their long-duration flight together.
PowerCat Member Posts: 193 From: Herington, KS, USA Registered: Feb 2006	posted 09-17-2007 07:31 AM I think one of the more interesting pairs that flew three times together was Jeff Hoffman and Claude Nicollier. In fact, Nicollier's first THREE flights included Hoffman as a crew mate. Those flights were STS-46, STS-61 and STS-75.
kimmern123 Member Posts: 83 From: Norway Registered: Dec 2006	posted 09-17-2007 02:31 PM And upcoming is Steve Frick and Rex Walheim, both flew on STS-110 together and are up for STS-122. Then next year there's Mark Kelly and Mike Fossum on STS-124, as you know they flew together on STS-121. Then, as mentioned, the STS-125 crew has a couple of people that's flown together before.
astro-nut Member Posts: 946 From: Washington, IL Registered: Jan 2006	posted 09-28-2007 12:08 PM I have looked through my records and here is what I have come up with: Borman / Lovell (Gemini 7, Apollo 8) Stafford / Cernan (Gemini 9, Apollo 10) Conrad / Gordon (Gemini 11, Apollo 12) Engle / Truly (ALT Program, STS-2) Crippen / Ride (STS-7, STS41 G) Covey / Lounge (STS-51I, STS-26) Bolden / Hawley (STS-61C, STS-31) Gregory / Musgrave (STS-33, STS-44) Grabe / Thagard (STS-30, STS-42) Grabe / Hilmers (STS-51J, STS-42) Sullivan / Leestma (STS-41G, STS-45) Bolden / Sullivan (STS-31, STS-45) Melnick / Akers (STS-41, STS-49) Nagel / Ross (STS-37, STS-55) Blaha / Lucid (STS-43, STS-58 and Mir crews) Hoffman / Nicollier (STS-46, STS-61) Thornton / Akers (STS-49, STS-61) Bolden / Chang-Diaz (STS-61C, STS-60) Casper / Thout (STS-36, STS-62) Allen / Ivins (STS-46, STS-62) Godwin / Apt (STS-37, STS-59) Richards / Meade (STS-50, STS-64) Durrance / Parise (STS-35, STS-67) Dunbar / Baker (STS-50, STS-71) Walker / Voss (STS-53, STS-69) Bowersox / Thornton (STS-61, STS-73) Allen / Hoffman / Chang-Diaz / Nicollier (STS-46, STS-75) Hoffman / Nicollier (STS-61, STS-75) Chilton / Godwin / Clifford (STS-59, STS-76) Searfoss / Lucid (STS-58, STS-76) Casper / Runco (STS-54, STS-77) Henricks / Kregel (STS-70, STS-78) Readdy / Walz (STS-51, STS-79) Baker / Wisoff (STS-68, STS-81) Baker / Blaha (STS-43, STS-81) Collins / Foale (STS-63, STS-84) Brown / Davis (STS-47, STS-85) Wetherbee / Titov (STS-63, STS-86) Brown / Robinson (STS-85, STS-95) Brown / Parazynski (STS-66, STS-95) Brown / Clervoy (STS-66, STS-103) Gorie / Kavandi (STS-91, STS-99) Duffy / Chiao / Wakata (STS-72, STS-92) Duffy / Wisoff (STS-57, STS-92) Cockrell / Jones (STS-80, STS-98) Wetherbee / Shepherd (STS-52, STS-102) Voss / Helms / Usachev (STS-101, STS-102, STS-105) Horowitz / Voss / Helms / Usachev (STS-101, STS-105) Bursch / Walz (STS-51, STS-108, STS-111) Bursch / Walz / Onufrienko (STS-108, STS-111) Currie / Newman (STS-88, STS-109) Altman / Linnehan (STS-90, STS-109) Bowersox / Lopez-Alegria (STS-73, STS-113) Malenchenko / Lu (STS-106, Expedition 7) Kelly / Thomas (STS-102, STS-114) Lawrence / Thomas (STS-91, STS-114) Jett / Tanner (STS-97, STS-115) Polansky / Curbeam (STS-98, STS-116) Sturckow / Forrester (STS-105, STS-117) Entire STS-83 and 94 flight crews Also planned is: Frick / Walheim (STS-110, STS-122) M. Kelly / Fossum (STS-121,STS-124) Altman / Grunsfeld / Massimino (STS-109, STS-125) Ferguson / Stefanyshun-Piper (STS-115, STS-126)
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000	posted 08-24-2009 09:40 AM With STS-128 CDR Rick Sturckow flying with MS Pat Forrester for the third time together (prev: 105 and 117), I was wondering if that was a record? Any other astronauts accomplish that? Editor's note: Threads merged.
Delta7 Member Posts: 1505 From: Bluffton IN USA Registered: Oct 2007	posted 08-24-2009 01:14 PM Shannon Lucid and John Blaha (STS-43; STS-58; STS-79/Mir crewmember swap).
ASCAN1984 Member Posts: 1049 From: County Down, Nothern Ireland Registered: Feb 2002	posted 09-23-2009 01:30 PM Speaking of the STS 83/94 crew, what did they say it was like flying again together?
OV-105 Member Posts: 816 From: Ridgecrest, CA Registered: Sep 2000	posted 09-23-2009 03:27 PM quote: Originally posted by ASCAN1984: Speaking of the STS 83/94 crew, what did they say it was like flying again together? STS-83 was more like a test flight since they were only up for almost 4 days. It was a great thing for the program to be able to for a reflight that fast 3 months.
kr4mula Member Posts: 642 From: Cinci, OH Registered: Mar 2006	posted 09-25-2009 11:11 AM As I recall, George Abbey, who was still JSC director, was the big proponent of reflying the mission. I had the privilege of watching the landing of the re-flight from the mission control viewing room (back when landings were not a big deal!).
LM-12 Member Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010	posted 06-15-2012 07:46 PM Which astronauts flew on more than one space flight together? For instance, Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon on Gemini 11 and Apollo 12. Editor's note: Threads merged.
Cozmosis22 Member Posts: 968 From: Texas * Earth Registered: Apr 2011	posted 06-15-2012 07:51 PM Bob Crippen and Sally Ride, STS-7 and 41-G.
micropooz Member Posts: 1512 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003	posted 06-15-2012 08:15 PM Stafford and Cernan, Gemini 9 and Apollo 10...
Jay Chladek Member Posts: 2272 From: Bellevue, NE, USA Registered: Aug 2007	posted 06-15-2012 09:44 PM The entire crew of STS-83, who ended up flying on STS-94 together (sure it was due to a malfunction which cut the STS-83 mission short causing the mission to be re-manifested ASAP, but it counts I would say).
jtheoret Member Posts: 344 From: Albuquerque, NM USA Registered: Jul 2003	posted 06-15-2012 09:45 PM Borman and Lovell: Gemini 7 and Apollo 8.
Tom Member Posts: 1597 From: New York Registered: Nov 2000	posted 06-15-2012 10:12 PM Tom Henricks and Kevin Kregel... CDR and PLT for both STS-70 and STS-78.
LM-12 Member Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010	posted 06-15-2012 11:27 PM Ferguson and Magnus on STS-126 and STS-135 Shatalov and Yeliseyev on Soyuz 8 and Soyuz 10 Kizim and Solovyov on Soyuz T10 and Soyuz T15 Lazarev and Makarov on Soyuz 12 and the Soyuz 18A launch abort
Mike Isbell Member Posts: 551 From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA Registered: Aug 2003	posted 06-27-2012 02:35 PM Shatalov and Yeliseyev also returned together on Soyuz 4 after Aleksei Yeliseyez and Yevgeni Khrunov transferred by EVA from Soyuz 5. Also Vladimir Titov and Jean-Loup Chretien returned together on Soyuz TM-6 and flew together on STS-86. In addition Aleksandr Volkov and Sergei Krikalyov flew together on Soyuz TM-7 and launched together on Soyuz TM-12.
LM-12 Member Posts: 3208 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010	posted 07-07-2012 05:35 PM quote: Originally posted by Mike Isbell: In addition Aleksandr Volkov and Sergei Krikalyov flew together on Soyuz TM-7 and launched together on Soyuz TM-12. I believe they flew together on Soyuz TM-7 and landed together on Soyuz TM-13.

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