John E. Blaha
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: Aug. 26, 1942
Age: 79
John Elmer Blaha is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir. Blaha is married to the former Brenda I. Walters of St. Louis, Missouri. They have three grown children and four grandchildren.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-29
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 13, 1989, 2:57 p.m.
Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-33
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 22, 1989, 12:23 a.m.
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-43
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 2, 1991, 3:01 p.m.
Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-58
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 18, 1993, 2:53 p.m.
Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-79
United Space Alliance | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Sept. 16, 1996, 8:54 a.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Human Exploration
STS-79 was the 17th flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis, and the 79th mission of the Space Shuttle program. The flight saw Atlantis dock with the Russian space station Mir to deliver equipment, supplies and relief personnel. A variety of scientific experiments were also conducted aboard Atlantis by her crew. It was the first shuttle mission to rendezvous with a fully assembled Mir, and the fourth rendezvous of a shuttle to the space station.
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.
LauncherOne
Straight Up
Mojave Air and Space Port - Air launch to orbitLaunch contracted by the U.S. Space Force for the Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP), with payloads provided by the DoD Space Test Program (STP) as…
Atlas V 541
USSF-12
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USATwo US national security payloads. The first is the Space Force's Wide Field of View (WFOV) Testbed satellite, the second is a multi-manifest satelli…
PSLV
DS-EO & others
Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaDS-EO is an electro-optical multispectral Earth observation satellite for DSTA from Singapore. Secondary payloads are NeuSAR and SCOOB-I, both also f…
Falcon 9
SES-22
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGeostationary communications satellite
Electron
CAPSTONE
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandCAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment) is a 12-U cubesat mission to test operations in nea…
