DESCRIPTION | NAME OF SITE | CITY | STATE |
BIRTHPLACE | WILOUBY HOSPITAL | CLEVELAND | OHIO |
SCHOOL | WILOUBY SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | WILOUBY | OHIO |
SCHOOL | PURDUE UNIVERSITY | WEST LAFEYETTE | INDIANA |
SCHOOL | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE | HOUSTON | TEXAS |
WORKED | MISSION CONTROL CAPSULE COMMUNICATOR | HOUSTON | TEXAS |
WORKED | SAIL BUILDING | HOUSTON | TEXAS |
NAME OF VEHICLE | NAME OF ORBITER | MISSION NUMBER | MISSION DESCRIPTION | LOCATION | CITY | STATE/COUNTRY |
SPACE SHUTTLE | SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS | STS-71 | It was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station Mir. It started on 27 June 1995 with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. The Shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis. | KENNEDY SPACE CENTER | MERRIT ISLAND | FLORIDA |
SPACE SHUTTLE | SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR | STS 54 | The primary payload was the fifth TDRS satellite, TDRS-F, which was deployed on day one of the mission. It was later successfully transferred to its proper orbit by the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS). Also carried into orbit in the payload bay was a Hitchhiker experiment called the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS). This instrument collected data on X-ray radiation from diffuse sources in deep space. | CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER | EXPOSITION PARK | CALIFORNIA |
SPACE SHUTTLE | SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY | STS 39 | STS-39 was the twelfth mission of the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, and the 40th orbital shuttle mission overall. The primary purpose of the mission was to conduct a variety of payload experiments for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). | STEVEN UDVAR HAZY | CHANTILLY | VIRGINIA |
SPACE SHUTTLE | SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY | STS 82 | The STS-82 mission was the second in a series of planned servicing missions to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (“HST”), which had been placed in orbit on April 24, 1990, by Discovery during STS-31. The first servicing mission was done by Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-61. Work performed by Discovery’s crew significantly upgraded the scientific capabilities of the HST and helped to keep the telescope functioning smoothly until the next scheduled servicing missions, which were STS-103 in 1999 and STS-109 in 2002 | STEVEN UDVAR HAZY | CHANTILLY | VIRGINIA |