John E. Blaha
American - ( NASA)
Retired
Date of Birth: Aug. 26, 1942
Age: 78
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. 26, 1996, 12:13 p.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.
New Shepard
NS-15
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USAFifteenth flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. During the mission, astronaut operational exercises will be conducted in preparation for hum…
Soyuz 2.1a
Soyuz MS-18
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanSoyuz MS-18 begins expedition 65 by carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International …
Long March 4B
Long March 4B
Taiyuan, People's Republic of ChinaFalcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 23
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 4C
Gaofen-12-02
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaGaofen is a series of civilian Earth observation satellites developed and launched for the China High-definition Earth Observation System (CHEOS), a …
