Brian Duffy

American - (NASA)

Retired

Date of Birth: June 20, 1953
Age: 71

Brian Duffy is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions.

Spaceflight Record

Brian Duffy flew on four previous launch(es).

Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-45

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 24, 1992, 1:13 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-45 was a 1992 Space Shuttle mission using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Its almost nine-day scientific mission was with a non-deployable payload of instruments. It was the 46th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th for Atlantis.

Low Earth Orbit

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Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-57

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
June 21, 1993, 1:07 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-57 was a Shuttle-Spacehab mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched 21 June 1993 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-72

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Jan. 11, 1996, 9:41 a.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-72 was a Space Shuttle Endeavour mission to capture and return to Earth a Japanese 16 spacecraft known as Space Flyer Unit (SFU). The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 11 January 1996.

Low Earth Orbit

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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-92

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Oct. 11, 2000, 11:17 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-92 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. STS-92 marked the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle.

Low Earth Orbit

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Acting Administrator: James Free

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Recent Launches

Kinetica 1

Success

21 hours, 37 minutes ago

6 satellites

Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Carried 6 satellites to Sun-synchronous orbit, including commercial Earth observation satellites Taijing-3-04 & Taijing-4-02A: * Taijing-3-04 * T…

Falcon 9

Success

22 hours, 23 minutes ago

Starlink Group 12-15

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Long March 7A

Success

1 day, 13 hours ago

ChinaSat 3B

201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Chinese communication geostationary satellite for unknown purposes.

Ceres-1S

Success

2 days, 18 hours ago

Tianqi 16-18 & 20

Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship - Sea Launch

4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.

PSLV-XL

Failure

4 days, 1 hour ago

EOS-09 (RISAT-1B)

Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

RISAT-1B is the third in the series of radar imaging RISAT-1 satellites of ISRO using an active C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), providing all-…