STS-45 – Spaceflight Now

January 16, 2025

Breaking News

[ January 15, 2025 ] American, Japanese robotic landers share rocket launch to the Moon Falcon 9
[ January 14, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 131 spacecraft on Transporter-12 Falcon 9 rideshare mission from California Falcon 9
[ January 13, 2025 ] SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Falcon 9
[ January 13, 2025 ] Blue Origin scrubs first New Glenn launch attempt due to “vehicle subsystem issue” Mission Reports
[ January 10, 2025 ] SpaceX launches, lands first stage booster for record-setting 25th time during Starlink flight Falcon 9

Shuttle skipper, mountaineering spacewalker going into Hall of Fame

May 12, 2016 Justin Ray

Commander of the 100th space shuttle flight and a spacewalker who later climbed Mount Everest will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.

OTD…March 24 and STS-45

March 24, 2015 Justin Ray

Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis’ STS-45 mission in March 1992.