Name: Thagard, Norman Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 5

Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
1. STS-7 June 18, 1983 - Challenger June 24, 1983 - Challenger
2. STS-51B April 29, 1985 - Challenger May 6, 1985 - Challenger
3. STS-30 May 4, 1989 - Atlantis May 8, 1989 - Atlantis
4. STS-42 January 22, 1992 - Discovery January 30, 1992 - Discovery
Space Flights Launch Date - Flight Up Landing Date - Flight Down
5. NASA-1 March 14, 1995 - Soyuz TM-21 July 7, 1995 - STS-71 (Atlantis)

Space Flights Descriptions
1. STS-7 Deployed Anik C-2 for TELESAT Canada and Palapa B-1 for Indonesia
Deployed and retrieved the Shuttle Pallet Satellite 1 (SPAS-1) - Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications Payload 2 (OSTA-2) containing material science experiments
2. STS-51B Spacelab-3 Mission (SL-3)
First operational flight for Spacelab
STS-61G
(Cancelled)
Planned shuttle mission to deploy the Galileo Jupiter orbiter spacecraft
Cancelled after the Challenger disaster
3. STS-30 Deployed the Magellan Venus radar mapping spacecraft
4. STS-42 International Microgravity Laboratory Mission 1 (IML-1)
5. NASA-1 Shuttle-Mir Long Duration Mission 1 (Mir Main Expedition EO-18 Crew)
Docked with Mir aboard Soyuz TM-21 on March 16, 1995
Returned to Earth aboard Atlantis as part of the STS-71 crew on July 7, 1995

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Space Shuttle Program - 1983 / 1985 /1989 / 1992
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Updated - June 5, 2006