NASA Mission

By juliaspieszny

  • NASA Misson

    Pilot Richard H. Truly and backup crew members,Thomas K. Mattingly II and Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr.
    A safe way to bring humans into space and a safe way to bring them back.

  • NASA Misson

    Crew photo with Commander Brewster H. Shaw, Jr., Pilot Bryan D. O'Connor, Mission Specialists Mary L. Cleave, Sherwood C. Spring, Jerry L. Ross and Payload Specialists Rodolfo Neri Vela and Charles D. Walker.
    This was the second mission dedicated to the Department of Defense.

  • NASA Misson

    first threatened by change out of boosters with those slated to fly on and delay of STS-79 liftoff. Hurricane preparations because of Hurricane Fran in early September halted booster stacking operations in the Vehicle Assembly Building , prompting mission managers to reschedule launch date to Nov. 8. At Flight Readiness Review Oct. 28, mission managers declined to formalize launch date pending analysis of erosion in STS-79 booster nozzles

  • NASA Misson

    Specialists Jeffrey A. Hoffman, John M. Lounge, Robert A. Parker and Payload Specialists Samuel T. Durrance and Ronald A. Parise. They did this because they needed to see the new things before other people had looked first.

  • NASA Misson

    Commander Dominic L. Gorie, Pilot Mark E. Kelly, Mission Specialists Linda M. Godwin, Daniel M. Tani and three Russian cosmonauts; Yuri Onufrienko, Mikhail Tyurin and Vladimir N. Dezhurov.
    the crews observed the playing of the U.S. and Russian national anthems at 8:46 a.m. EST, the three-month anniversary of the first impact at the World Trade Center.