Charles D. Gemar
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: Aug. 4, 1955
Age: 67
Charles Donald "Sam" Gemar is an American former astronaut with NASA and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. Gemar has flown on three Space Shuttle missions (STS-38, STS-48 and STS-62). Gemar has completed 385 orbits of the Earth and over 581 hours in space. He has also served in different positions in NASA, including as a CAPCOM for Shuttle missions. Gemar was the first astronaut to be born in the state of South Dakota.
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-38
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 15, 1990, 11:48 p.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-48
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 12, 1991, 11:11 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Earth Science
STS-48 was the thirteenth mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery and its primary purpose was to launch the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The flight was also the first to test an electronic still camera in space, a modified Nikon F4.
Low Earth Orbit
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-62
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 4, 1994, 1:53 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Unknown
STS-62 was a Space Shuttle program mission flown aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. The primary payloads were the USMP-02 microgravity experiments package and the OAST-2 engineering and technology payload, both in the orbiter's cargo bay. The two-week mission also featured a number of biomedical experiments focusing on the effects of long duration spaceflight.
Low Earth Orbit
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Long March 4C
Yaogan 34-04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaOfficially described as an optical remote-sensing satellite built by SAST.
Long March 2D
PIESAT-1 x 4
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for PIESAT (1 main, 3 sub-satellites), operating in tandem using very long baseline in…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 5-10
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 56 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2-1v
Kosmos 2568 (EO MKA-4)
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationNote: Payload identity uncertain. Russian reconnaissance satellite of unknown purposes, possibly in the same series as Kosmos 2551, 2555 and 2560.
Shavit-2
Ofek-13
Unknown Pad - Palmachim Airbase, State of IsraelOfek is a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites. Ofek-13 is an Israeli SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) reconnaissance satellite that combines hi…
