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.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 3-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 46 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 6
Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-09, 35 to 43 & Infrared A01 to 06
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China16 new Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-26
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Khayyam & rideshare
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanKhayyam, also known as Project 505, is a Russian built Earth observation satellite for Iran. The satellite is built by VNIIEM and NPK Barl on a curre…
Ceres-1
Taijing-1-01 & 02
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTwo commercial Earth observation satellites built by Minospace.
