Charles J. Precourt
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: June 29, 1955
Age: 67
Charles Joseph Precourt is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Notably, he piloted or commanded several missions which involved docking with the Russian Mir space station and was heavily involved in Russian/US Space relations as well as the International Space Station collaboration. He retired from the USAF with the rank of Colonel.
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-55
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 26, 1993, 2:50 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Unknown
STS-55 (Space Transportation System 55), or D-2 was the 55th overall flight of the US Space Shuttle and the 14th flight of Shuttle Columbia. This flight was a multinational Spacelab flight involving 88 experiments from eleven different nations. The experiments ranged from biology sciences to simple earth observations.
Low Earth Orbit
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-71
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
June 27, 1995, 7:32 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Human Exploration
STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program and the first Space Shuttle docking to Russian space station Mir. It started on 27 June 1995 with the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle delivered a relief crew of two cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin to the station and recovered Increment astronaut Norman Thagard. Atlantis returned to Earth on 7 July with a crew of eight. It was the first of seven straight missions to Mir flown by Atlantis.
Low Earth OrbitSpace Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-84
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
May 15, 1997, 9:07 a.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-91
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
June 2, 1998, 10:06 p.m.
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…
