posted 08-01-2010 04:36 AM               

• Flight: STS-42
  
• Orbiter: Discovery
  
• Crew: CDR Ron Grabe, PLT Steve Oswald, MS1 Norm Thagard, MS2 Dave Hilmers, MS3 Bill Readdy, PS1 Roberta Bondar and PS2 Ulf Merbold
  
• Launch Date: 22 January 1992
  
• Mission: Spacelab 7

  Flight was extended a day so that some experiments could gain more data. Crew appeared in a live TV feed for the pre-show, show of the superbowl.

posted 08-02-2010 03:32 AM               

• Flight: STS-45
  
• Orbiter: Atlantis
  
• Crew: CDR Charlie Bolden, PLT Brian Duffy, MS1 Kathy Sullivan, MS2 Dave Leestma, MS3 Mike Foale, PS1 Byron Lichtenberg, PS2 Dirk D. Frimout
  
• Launch Date: April 24th 1992 8.13 am EST
  
• Mission: Atlas 1

  Flight extended one day to continue science.

posted 08-13-2010 01:13 AM               

• Flight: STS-49
  
• Orbiter: Endeavour
  
• Crew: CDR Dan Brandenstein, PLT Kevin Chilton, MS1 Pierre Thout, MS2 Kathy Thronton, MS3 Rick Heib, MS4 Tom Akers, MS 5 Bruce Melnick
  
• Launch Date: May 7th 1992
  
• Mission: Capture and repair of Intelsat VI

  According to Wikipedia

  • First flight of the shuttle Endeavour
    
  • First EVA involving three astronauts.
    
  • First and second longest EVA at the time: 8 hours and 29 minutes and 7 hours and 45 minutes.
    
  • First Shuttle mission to feature four EVAs.
    
  • EVA time for a single Shuttle mission: 25 hours and 27 minutes, or 59:23 person hours.
    
  • First Shuttle mission requiring three rendezvous with an orbiting spacecraft.
    First use of a drag chute during a Shuttle landing.

posted 08-14-2010 03:34 PM               

• Flight: STS-50
  
• Orbiter: Columbia
  
• Crew: CDR Dick Richards, PLT Ken Bowersox. MS1 Bonnie Dunbar, MS2 Ellen Baker, MS3 Carl Meade, PS1 Lawrence DeLucas, PS2 Eugene Trinh
  
• Launch Date: June 25th 1992
  
• Mission: U.S. Microgravity Laboratory 1 (Spacelab)

posted 08-15-2010 03:54 AM               

• Flight: STS-46
  
• Orbiter: Atlantis
  
• Crew: CDR Loren Shriver, PLT Andy Allen, MS1 Jeff Hoffman, MS2 Franklin Chang-Diaz, MS3 Claude Nicollier, MS4 Marsha S. Ivins, PS1 Franco Malerba
  
• Launch Date: July 31st 1992
  
• Mission: 1st tether satellite, EURECA

  150th spaceflight by humans

posted 08-18-2010 06:16 AM               

• Flight: STS-47
  
• Orbiter: Endeavour
  
• Crew: CDR Hoot Gibson, PLT Curt Brown, MS1 Mark Lee, MS2 Jan Davis, MS3 Jay Apt, MS4 Mae Jemison, PS1 Mamoru Mohri
  
• Launch Date: September 12th 1992
  
• Mission: Spacelab J

  First African American woman to fly in space and first (and only to date) married couple to fly in space together.

posted 08-18-2010 10:00 AM               

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Originally posted by ASCAN1984:
...and first (and only to date) married couple to fly in space together.

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posted 08-19-2010 12:52 PM               

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Originally posted by Jay Chladek:
Man, talk about some crude language on the STS-49 landing, starting at about the 4:14 point in the video.

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posted 09-08-2010 03:57 AM               

• Flight: STS-52
  
• Orbiter: Columbia
  
• Crew: CDR Jim Wetherbee, PLT Mike Baker, MS1 Charles Lacy Veach, MS2 Bill Shepard, MS3 Tammy Jernigan, PS1 Steve Maclean
  
• Launch Date: October 22nd 1992
  
• Mission: (LAGEOS-II and USMP-1 and CANEX-2

posted 09-08-2010 04:00 AM               

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Originally posted by jasonelam:
In any case, someone needs to put some money in the "swear" jar!

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posted 10-22-2010 01:45 AM               

• Flight: STS-53
  
• Orbiter: Discovery
  
• Crew: CDR Dave Walker, PLT Bob Cabana, MS1 Buy Bluford, MS2 JIm Voss, MS3 Rich Clifford
  Launch Date: December 2nd 1992
  
• Mission: Last DOD shuttle flight. Deploy of DOD 1 military satellite

posted 11-22-2010 03:38 AM               

• Flight: STS-54
  
• Orbiter: Endeavour
  
• Crew: CDR John Casper, PLT Don McMonagle, MS1 Mario Runco, MS2 Greg Harbaugh, MS3 Susan Helms
  
• Launch Date: January 13th 1993
  
• Mission: TDRS F, Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS) and EVA by Runco and Harbaugh to test EVA techniques

posted 11-25-2010 05:29 AM               

• Flight: STS-56
  
• Orbiter: Discovery
  
• Crew: CDR Ken Cameron, PLT Steve Oswald, MS1 Mike Foale, MS2 Ken Cockrell, MS3 Ellen Ochoa
  
• Launch Date: April 8th 1993
  
• Mission: ATLAS-2 and Spartan 201 deploy and retrieval

  Note: In regards to Cockrell I think this was only the second time a shuttle pilot flew as an mission specialist. The first I believe to be Bill Readdy on STS-42.

posted 11-26-2010 03:44 AM               

• Flight: STS-55
  
• Orbiter: Columbia
  
• Crew: CDR Steve Nagel, PLT Tom Henricks, MS1 Jerry Ross, MS2 Charlie Precourt, MS3 Bernard Harris, PS1 Ulrich Walter, PS2 Hans Schlegel
  
• Launch Date: April 26th 1993
  
• Mission: Spacelab D2

  Note: The fourth time a future CDR had flown as a mission specialist.

  Wikipedia note on launch:

  Columbia was initially scheduled to launch in late February however this date slipped to early March due to concerns with the tip-seal retainers in the main engines' oxidizer turbopumps. All three turbopumps were replaced at the pad but later inspection revealed the retainers to be in good condition.

  Further delays were caused by the burst of a hydraulic flex hose in the aft compartment during the Flight Readiness Test. The lines were removed and inspected and three replacements were installed.

  The launch attempt on March 22 was aborted automatically at T-3 seconds when computers detected an incomplete ignition of the number three SSME. The problem was traced to a leak in the liquid oxygen preburner check valve. All three SSMEs were replaced as a precaution.

Another launch attempt on April 24 was scrubbed due to a possible faulty reading with one of the inertial measurement units.

The final launch attempt was successful with liftoff at 10:50 a.m. EDT on April 26, 1993.

posted 11-28-2010 06:26 AM               

• Flight: STS-57
  
• Orbiter: Endeavour
  
• Crew: CDR Ron Grabe, PLT Brian Duffy, MS1 David Low, MS2 Nancy Sherlock, MS3 Jeff Wisoff, MS4 Janice Voss
  
• Launch Date: June 21st 1993
  
• Mission: SpaceHab first flight, Eurecca Retireval, EVA by Low and Wisoff

posted 12-07-2010 04:21 AM               

• Flight: STS-51
  
• Orbiter: Discovery
  
• Crew: CDR Frank Culbertson, PLT Bill Readdy, MS1 Jim Newman, MS2 Dan Bursch, MS3 Carl Walz
  
• Launch Date: September 12th 1993
  
• Mission: Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) deploy via IUS, EVA Newman and Walz to test ISS construction techniques and deploy and retrieval of ORFEUS\SPAS.

  Road to launch according to Wikepedia:

  STS-51 was notable for having been scrubbed three times on the launchpad, each time after the crew had boarded the spacecraft:

  On July 17, 1993, the launch was scrubbed on the pad due to a flaw in the pyrotechnic initiator controller that triggers the release of the solid rocket boosters from the mobile launcher platform.

  On July 24, 1993, problems with a hydraulic power unit in one of the solid rocket boosters caused another scrub on the pad. Because of the Perseid meteor shower, the next launch window did not open until the second week of August.

  On August 12, 1993, the count reached the T−3 second mark, at which point the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) had ignited. A shutdown was then triggered by faulty fuel flow sensors in one of the SSMEs.

  STS-51 successfully launched on September 12, 1993.

  Note: after capture ORFEUS was swung around the nose of the orbiter with the RMS to capture some amazing views. The training and flight of STS-51 is available to see via a documentary called space Shuttle Discovery.

  Personal Note: This documentary is the reason I became interested in manned spaceflight.

posted 12-27-2010 01:30 AM               

• Flight: STS-58
  
• Orbiter: Columbia
  
• Crew: CDR John Blaha, PLT Rick Searfoss, MS1 Rhea Seddon, MS2 Bill Mcarthur, MS3 Shannon Lucid, PS1 Martin Fettman
  
• Launch Date: October 18th 1993
  
• Mission: Spacelab Life Sciences 2

  Note: This is the last time Columbia would ever land at Edwards

posted 02-10-2011 03:29 AM               

• Flight: STS-61
  
• Orbiter: Endeavour
  
• Crew: CDR Dick Covey, PLT Ken Bowersox, MS1 Story Musgrave, MS2 Kathy Thornton, MS3 Claude Nicollier, MS4 Jeff Hoffman, MS5 Tom Akers
  
• Launch Date: December 2nd 1993
  
• Mission: Hubble Space Telescope Repair

  Note: This flight holds the record of the most EVA's in one flight - five.

  This mission was the first to use a computer-controlled space tool, the Power Ratchet Tool (PRT).

  The crew of this mission appeared on Tool Time in a 1994 episode of Home Improvement.

  An IMAX camera was carried on this mission to film the repairs to Hubble, and this film ultimately appeared in the IMAX film Destiny in Space.

  STS-61 had the highest calculated risk (1 in 150) of a catastrophic failure due to space debris or micrometeorite impact.

posted 02-13-2011 09:04 AM               

• Flight: STS-60
  
• Orbiter: Discovery
  
• Crew: CDR Charlie Bolden, PLT Ken Reightler, MS1 Jan Davis, MS2 Ron Sega, MS3 Franklin Chang-Diaz, MS4 Sergei Krikalev
  
• Launch Date: February 3rd 1994
  
• Mission: Spacehab and Wakeshield

  Sergei K. Krikalev became the first Russian to fly aboard a Shuttle and the first Russian to be launched, be part of a crew and return to earth via an American vehicle.

  Any more firsts for this flight?

posted 02-13-2011 11:28 PM               

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Originally posted by QuiGon Grin:
This is a bit off-topic but are all shuttle landings viewable some were as well?

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posted 02-14-2011 01:52 AM               

• Flight: STS-62
  
• Orbiter: Columbia
  
• Crew: CDR John Casper, PLT Andy Allen, MS1 Pierre Thout, MS2 Charles Gemar, MS3 Marsha Ivins
  
• Launch Date: March 4th 1994
  
• Mission: USMP-02 and OAST-2

  Note: Was one of two flights covered for the Discovery Channel's 1994 documentary "The Space Shuttle" (the other being STS-59).

posted 02-15-2011 03:16 AM               

• Flight: STS-59
  
• Orbiter: Endeavour
  
• Crew: CDR Sid Gutierrez, PLT Kevin Chilton, MS1 Linda Godwin, MS2 Jay Apt, MS3 Rich Clifford, MS4 Tom Jones
  
• Launch Date: April 9th 1994
  
• Mission: SRL 1

  Launch preparations covered in "The Space Shuttle" Discovery Channel documentary and in mission specialist Tom Jones' book "Sky Walking"

posted 02-15-2011 03:31 AM               

Note: .Chiaki Mukai became the first Japanise woman in space