STS-45 – Spaceflight Now

July 6, 2022

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Shuttle skipper, mountaineering spacewalker going into Hall of Fame

May 12, 2016

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

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