STS-41
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STS-41 was the 36th Space Shuttle mission and the eleventh mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The four-day mission had a primary objective of launching the Ulysses probe as part of the "Internati
Ulysses and its Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in the payload bay of Discovery
From left: Melnick, Cabana, Akers, Richards and Shepherd are pictured in front of the T-38 jet trainerSpace Shuttle program← STS-31 (35)STS-38 (37) →
STS-41 launches from Kennedy Space Center, on October 6, 1990.
Ulysses after deployment
William Shepherd
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William McMichael Shepherd,, is an American former Navy SEAL, aerospace, ocean, and mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who served as commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the Internationa
STS-41
…Landing mass 89,298 kg (196,868 lb) Payload mass 15,362 kg (33,867 lb) Crew Crew size 5 Members Richard N. Richards Robert D. Cabana Bruce E. Melnick William Shepherd Thomas Akers Start of mission Launch date October 6, 1990, 11:47:15 UTC (7:47:15 am EDT) Launch site Kennedy, LC-39B Contractor Rockwell International…
William Shepherd
Shepherd during Soyuz winter survival training in March 1998 near Star City, Russia
William Shepherd on the ISS as commander of Expedition 1
Shepherd, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after Shepherd was awarded the Russian Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration", December 2, 2016