Samuel T. Durrance

American - (NASA)

Deceased

Date of Birth: Sept. 17, 1943
Date of Death: May 5, 2023

Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) was an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist.

Spaceflight Record

Samuel T. Durrance flew on two previous launch(es).

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-35

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Dec. 2, 1990, 6:49 a.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-35 was the tenth flight of Columbia and the 38th of the shuttle program. Its mission was devoted to astronomical observations using ASTRO-1, a spacelab observatory consisting of four telescopes.

Low Earth Orbit

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Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-67

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 2, 1995, 6:38 a.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-67 was a human spaceflight mission using Space Shuttle Endeavour that launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 2 March 1995.

Low Earth Orbit

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Administrator: Bill Nelson

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

Failure

6 hours, 3 minutes ago

DEAR-3 & 10 other satellites

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

Launched 11 satellites including AZSPACE's DEAR-3 prototype recoverable science experiment spacecraft and the French CASAA-Sat cubesat from the Marse…

Soyuz 2.1b

Success

1 day, 23 hours ago

Resurs-P No.5

31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Resurs-P is a series of Russian commercial Earth observation satellites capable of acquiring high-resolution imagery (resolution up to 1.0 m).

Falcon 9

Success

4 days, 1 hour ago

Starlink Group 12-2

Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Electron

Success

5 days, 16 hours ago

StriX Launch 6

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellites for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Falcon 9

Success

5 days, 19 hours ago

Bandwagon 2 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers…