William Gregory, born May 14, 1957 in Lockport, New York, went into space aboard Endeavour (STS-67) as pilot. With Commander Stephen Oswald, Gregory used the Middeck Active Control Experience (MACE) to test 200 different motion disturbance situations, lasting over 45 hours, to design better control systems.
Front row (L-R): Stephen Oswald, Tamara Jernigan, William Gregory
Back row (L-R): Ronald Parise, Wendy Lawrence, John Grunsfeld, Samuel Durrance
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Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-67), launched March 2, 1995, was dedicated to conduct astronomical observations in the ultraviolet wavelengths. Its crew consisted of Commander Stephen Oswald, Pilot William Gregory, John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, Tamara Jernigan, Samuel Durrance, and Ronald Parise.
The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, the Wisconsin Ultraviolet, the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT), and the Photo-Polarimeter Experiment were the three most important instruments aboard the Endeavour.
Ronald Parise, born May 24,1951 in Warren, Ohio, was a veteran of two space shuttle missions.
His first flight was aboard Columbia (STS-35) as mission specialist in December 1990. Being a ham radio operator, Parise conducted radio transmissions with ground-based amateur operators.
His second and last flight was aboard Endeavour (STS-67) as payload specialist in March 1995. It was the second spacelab mission to conduct astronomical observations in the ultraviolet spectrum.
Parise passed away in May 2008 from a brain tumor just weeks shy of his 57th birthday.
John Grunsfeld, born October 10, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, is a veteran of five space shuttle flights.
His first mission was aboard Endeavour (STS-67) as mission specialist in March 1995. The mission carried an experiment sponsored by the Australian Space Office.
His second mission was aboard Atlantis (STS-81) as mission specialist in January 1997 to the space station Mir. During the mission, Grunsfeld made a call to the NPR show Car Talk, which was hosted by two fellow graduates of MIT.
His third flight was aboard Discovery (STS-103) as mission specialist in December 1999. It was a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Grunsfeld conducted two EVAs with fellow astronaut Steven Smith.
His fourth mission was aboard Columbia (STS-109) as mission specialist in March 2002. It was another (the fourth) servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Grunsfeld conducted three EVAs with fellow astronaut Richard Linnehan.
His fifth and final mission was aboard Atlantis (STS-125) as mission specialist in May 2009. It was the fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Grunsfeld conducted three EVAs with fellow astronaut Andrew Feustel.
His total EVA time is 58 hours, 30 minutes. His time in space is 58 days, 15 hours, 3 minutes.
Stephen Scot Oswald, born June 30, 1951 in Seattle, Washington, is a veteran of three space shuttle flights.
His first mission was aboard Discovery (STS-42) as pilot in January 1992. The shuttle carried the International Microgravity Laboratory and Spacelab module.
His second mission was again aboard Discovery (STS-56) as pilot in April 1993.
His third and final mission was as commander on Endeavour (STS-67) in March 1995.
Samuel Durrance, born September 17, 1943 in Tallahassee, Florida, is a veteran of two space shuttle flights. He worked as a principal research scientists at the Johns Hopkins University over here in Baltimore.
His first flight was on Columbia (STS-35) as a payload specialist in December 1990. The mission was shortened by one day because of impending bad weather at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
His second and final was aboard Endeavour (STS-67) in March 1995 as a payload specialist. One of the objectives was to measure ultraviolet radiation from space since most UV radiation is absorbed by Earth's atmosphere and cannot be studied at the surface.
From left to right: Norman Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennady Strekalov
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Soyuz TM-21, launched March 14, 1995, carried the first American on a Soyuz spacecraft and to board Mir. The crew consisted of Vladimir Dezhurov, Flight Engineer Gennady Strekalov and Research cosmonaut Norman Thagard. They would be expedition Mir EO-18.
It was the first time ever that thirteen humans had been in space simultaneously: 3 aboard Soyuz, 3 aboard Mir and 7 aboard Endeavour (STS-67)
