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This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions. Abbreviations: PC = Payload Commander
10 mar 2009 · A pair of teachers, a rookie space pilot and Japan's first endurance spaceflier form only part of the tight-knit astronaut crew poised to blast off aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery.
Discovery performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions, and also carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit among other satellites. Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis.
Meet the Crew Members. Over 250 crew members flew aboard Discovery. Many were history-makers before coming aboard, others made history on Discovery, some did both. Meet some of the astronauts who flew aboard Discovery below.
9 gru 2006 · These seven astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-116 crew portrait. Scheduled to launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery are, front row (from the left), astronauts William A. Oefelein, pilot; Joan E. Higginbotham, mission specialist; and Mark L. Polansky, commander.
11 gru 2017 · In 39 voyages to space, Discovery crews launched the Hubble Space Telescope, sent the Ulysses spacecraft to study the sun and helped build the International Space Station.
23 lut 2011 · Six veteran astronauts are suiting up to fly the space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station tomorrow (Feb. 24) on the final voyage of the orbiter's long and illustrious...
