SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER 099 CHALLENGER 61-A LANDING
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Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983 and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before breaking up 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986 killing all seven crew members. It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster. Challenger was c...
Hartsfield, Henry W., 1933-2014
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Henry Hartsfield (b. Nov. 21, 1933, Birmingham, AL-d. July 17, 2014, Houston, TX) was an Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut. He served as pilot on the Columbia (STS-4), commander on the Discoery (STS-41-D), and commander on the Challenger (STS-61-A). Hartsfield further served in different roles within NASA at the Johnson Space Center, DC Headquarters, and Marshall Space Flight Center before joining Raytheon in 1998....
Bluford, Guion Stewart, 1942-
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NASA astronaut, aerospace engineer, military officer, and senior engineering executive, Guion S. Bluford Jr. was born on November 22, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest of three sons of Guion Bluford, Sr., a mechanical engineer, and Lolita Bluford, a special education teacher. Bluford graduated from Overbrook Senior High School in 1960 and went on to graduate from Pennsylvania State University in 1964 with his B.S. degree in aerospace engineering. He was also a distinguished g...
Buchli, James F., 1945-
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James Buchli (b. June 20, 1945, New Rockford, ND) became a NASA astronaut in August 1979. He served as a Mission Specialist on four space shuttle missions and later as Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office. Buchli retired from the US Marine Corps and NASA in 1992....
Bluford, Guion Stewart, 1942-
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NASA astronaut, aerospace engineer, military officer, and senior engineering executive, Guion S. Bluford Jr. was born on November 22, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest of three sons of Guion Bluford, Sr., a mechanical engineer, and Lolita Bluford, a special education teacher. Bluford graduated from Overbrook Senior High School in 1960 and went on to graduate from Pennsylvania State University in 1964 with his B.S. degree in aerospace engineering. He was also a distinguished g...
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973. It consists of a complex of one hundred buildings constructed on 1,620 acres in the Clear Lake Area of Houston. The center is home to NASA's astron...
