Canadian Space Agency (CSA)

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

STS-85 (Discovery)

This Discovery science mission deployed and re-captured an Earth atmospheric observation satellite and tested potential International Space Station hardware and robotics.

The first reusable launch and landing spacecraft, the Space Shuttle began a new chapter of human space exploration. It launched like a rocket but landed on a runway like a plane. Shuttle crews deployed dozens of commercial satellites and two interplanetary probes to Venus and Jupiter. The Shuttle served as a mini space station and hosted hundreds of biomedical, psychological, physiological, materials science, and physics experiments that have directly benefited life on Earth. The five flight-worthy Shuttles -- Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour -- flew 135 missions over 30 years. The Shuttles helped construct the Russian Mir space station and brought nearly 80% of the International Space Station to orbit. Shuttles also deployed and serviced the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space Shuttle

Bjarni Tryggvason

Canada

NASA

This astronaut is in the top 5% for number of missions.

Frequent Flyer

This astronaut has spent over a month in space.

Space Resident

STS-47 (Endeavour)

STS-47 was the 50th flight of the Space Shuttle and was co-sponsored by NASA and Japan. The crew performed 44 life and materials science experiments. The flight marked the first (and to date, only) time a married couple has flown in space together.

STS-66 (Atlantis)

This was the third Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Sciences mission.

STS-95 (Discovery)

NASA’s STS-95 mission launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on October 29th, 1998, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew included Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission Specialists Scott E. Parazynski, Stephen K. Robinson, and Pedro Duque, Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, and Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., a U.S. senator and former Mercury astronaut returning to space. STS-95’s main objectives included scientific experiments on aging, life sciences, and materials science, while deploying and operating the Spartan solar-observing satellite. Notably, the mission studied the effects of space on the aging process, with John Glenn serving as the key participant. Discovery successfully landed back at Kennedy Space Center on November 7th, 1998, completing the mission.

STS-103 (Discovery)

The third servicing and upgrade mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

STS-77 (Endeavour)

This multinational Space Shuttle mission saw Endeavour fly with a mix of NASA- and commercially-developed and procured payloads to test advanced biotechnology, electronics, and agriculture space products for the commercial market.

Curtis L. Brown Jr.

United States of America

STS-60 (Discovery)

This was the first flight of the Shuttle-Mir program, the first time a Russian launched on an American rocket, and the first time a U.S. crew communicated with a Russian crew on the Mir space station. The mission also performed several immune system and crystal growth experiments.

N. Jan Davis

This astronaut visited the International Space Station.

ISS Visitor

STS-73 (Columbia)

The U.S. Microgravity Laboratory-2 mission was a public-private scientific partnership between the U.S. government, U.S. universities, and private industry.

STS-96 (Discovery)

This flight was a resupply mission of Discovery to stockpile the International Space Station with equipment. The flight delivered parts of the Russian STRELA crane to the Station.

STS-100 (Endeavour)

Endeavour delivered Canadarm2, the ISS's robotic arm, to the International Space Station.

STS-80 (Columbia)

This multifaceted science mission deployed and re-captured two satellites and tested the effects of spaceflight on the cardiovascular system. It was the longest Space Shuttle mission, lasting 17 days 15 hours.

Kent V. Rominger

This astronaut is in the top 5% for total spacewalking time.

Elite Spacewalker

STS-116 (Discovery)

This mission brought the P5 spacer truss to the International Space Station, rotated one U.S. crewmember, started repositioning the ISS's solar arrays, and began a major electrical rewiring of the Station. The flight marked the first time two people of African descent flew in space together.

STS-98 (Atlantis)

The first human spaceflight launch of the 21st century brought the U.S. Destiny lab to the International Space Station.

Robert L. Curbeam Jr.

STS-114 (Discovery)

Japan

Australia

STS-114 was the first of two Return to Flight missions following the STS-107 Columbia disaster and the second time Space Shuttle Discovery was used for a Return to Flight mission, the first being STS-26 after the Challenger accident. Coincidentally, STS-114 launched at the exact same local time, 10:39:00 a.m. Eastern, as Columbia had on STS-107. It was also the second Shuttle flight commanded by a woman, Eileen Collins, who had previously commanded STS-93. During the mission, Discovery’s crew resupplied the International Space Station, tested new safety upgrades and procedures, and conducted the first ever in space repair of a Shuttle's heat shield. However, a large foam shedding event during launch showed that NASA had not fully resolved the issue that led to Columbia’s loss. As a result, the Shuttle fleet was grounded again. Further delays followed after Hurricane Katrina damaged NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where External Tanks were built, resulting in a yearlong pause in Shuttle flights until STS-121 in July 2006.

STS-130 (Endeavour)

Endeavour's crew delivered the final NASA connecting module, Tranquility, and a 360 degree viewing port called the Cupola to the International Space Station and also relocated an ISS docking port.

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