The shadows of Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum are visible against Discovery’s payload bay door during an EVA on STS-121.
STS-51-G was the first spaceflight of Shannon Lucid, the only space mission to include a Saudi crewmember, and the first shuttle mission to draw all of its crew from shuttle era astronaut groups.
STS-51-D crew portrait, including Senator Jake Garn (back row, right). Garn was severely incapacitated with space sickness during the mission, which led to the notation of the Garn Scale for measuring the severity of space sickness on astronauts in subsequent missions.
The crew of STS-95, including John Glenn (top centre), onboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Glenn became the oldest person to go into space at the age of 77, returning to space over 36 years after his first mission, the longest gap between missions for any astronaut.
Discovery deploys her parachute as STS-85 ends with a landing on the runway at Kennedy Space Center.
Mission Specialist Carl Meade drifts over Discovery’s playload bay in a test of the SAFER backpack during STS-64.











