Comment on Lock the Doors: Remembering Columbias Final Return Home Twenty Years On by Beautiful Shoes: Remembering Americas Space Adventures on the Fourth of July - AmericaSpace

[…] Twenty-four years later, on 4 July 2006, Discovery inadvertently became the only U.S. human space mission to actually launch on Independence Day. Aboard the shuttle, STS-121 Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Mark Kelly and Mission Specialists Mike Fossum, Lisa Nowak, Stephanie Wilson and Piers Sellers were flying the second return-to-flight test mission to the ISS, following the loss of Columbia. […]

from Comments for AmericaSpace https://ift.tt/c3LQnNA
via World Space Info