Michael Coats

American - (NASA)

Retired

Date of Birth: Jan. 16, 1946
Age: 78

Michael Lloyd Coats is a former NASA astronaut (three spaceflights), raised in Riverside, California. From December 2005 to December 2012, he served as Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

Spaceflight Record

Michael Coats flew on three previous launch(es).

Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-41-D

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Aug. 30, 1984, 12:41 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-41-D was the twelth flight of the Space Shuttle program and the maiden flight for Space Shuttle Discovery. It deployed three commercial 10 satellites during the six day mission along with a number of scientific experiments being conducted.

Low Earth Orbit

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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-29

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 13, 1989, 2:57 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-29 was the eighth flight of Discovery and its primary mission was to deploy the TDRS-D 10 satellite. It also deployed eight secondary payloads.

Low Earth Orbit

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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-39

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 28, 1991, 11:33 a.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-39 was the twelfth mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery and its primary purpose was to conduct a variety of payload experiments for the Department of Defence.

Low Earth Orbit

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Administrator: Bill Nelson

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.

Recent Launches

Soyuz 2.1b

Success

4 hours, 35 minutes ago

Kosmos (Unknown Payload)

Unknown Pad - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Russian military satellite(s) of unknown variant.

Falcon 9

Success

12 hours, 21 minutes ago

Starlink Group 6-70

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Kuaizhou

Success

17 hours, 48 minutes ago

Haishao-1

Mobile Launcher Pad - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellite from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to observe dynamics properties of oceans.

Long March 3

Success

1 day, 16 hours ago

TJSW-13

Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Chinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.

Long March 12

Success

4 days, 8 hours ago

Maiden Flight

Commercial LC-2 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

First launch of the Long March 12 launch vehicle and the first launch from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site. 2 satellites are on board: …