Terrence Wade Wilcutt is a United States Marine Corps officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. Wilcutt was NASA's Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance, unt
STS-89 was a Space Shuttle mission to the Mir space station flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour, and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 22 January 1998.
Terrence W. Wilcutt
…different aircraft. Wilcutt was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1990; he piloted missions STS-68 (1994) and STS-79 (1996). Wilcutt commanded mission STS-89 (1998) to the Mir space station and STS-106 (2000) to the International Space Station. Wilcutt served as director of safety and mission assurance at…
Endeavour docked to Mir, as viewed from a window on the Kvant-2 module
Left to right - Back row: Wolf, Sharipov, Reilly, Thomas, Anderson; Front row: Edwards, Wilcutt, DunbarSpace Shuttle program← STS-87 (88)STS-90 (90) →
STS-89 launch
Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Center, 31 January 1998.