Astronaut Charles Bolden Preps for Deorbit

Astronaut Charles Bolden Preps for Deorbit

Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, STS-60 commander, sits at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery in this image from February 1994. While aboard Discovery, the crew attempted to deploy the Wake Shield...
30 Years Ago: STS-60, the First Shuttle-Mir Mission

30 Years Ago: STS-60, the First Shuttle-Mir Mission

On Feb. 3, 1994, space shuttle Discovery took off on its 18th flight, STS-60. Its six-person crew of Commander Charles F. Bolden, Pilot Kenneth S. Reightler, and Mission Specialists N. Jan Davis, Ronald M. Sega, Franklin R. Chang-Díaz, who...