NASA Astronaut Group 10 (nicknamed "The Maggots") was a group of 17

astronauts An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

that were announced on May 23, 1984 and consisted of seven pilots and ten mission specialists. Although selected in 1984, no member of the group would fly until 1988 (William Shepherd on STS-27) due to the ''Challenger'' disaster and the resulting grounding of the Space Shuttle fleet.

Achievements

Of this group, several spaceflight firsts were achieved: *First American-born Hispanic astronaut and first Hispanic shuttle pilot and commander: Sidney Gutierrez (June 5, 1991,

STS-40 STS-40, the eleventh launch of Space Shuttle ''Columbia'', was a nine-day mission in June 1991. It carried the Spacelab module for Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1), the fifth Spacelab mission and the first dedicated solely to biology. STS-40 w ...

) *First

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commander:

William Shepherd William McMichael "Bill" Shepherd (born July 26, 1949), ( Capt, USN, Ret.), is an American former Navy SEAL, aerospace, ocean, and mechanical engineer, and NASA astronaut, who served as Commander of Expedition 1, the first crew on the Interna ...

(October 31, 2000,

Expedition 1 Expedition 1 was the first long-duration stay on the International Space Station (ISS). The three-person crew stayed aboard the station for 136 days, from November 2000 to March 2001. It was the beginning of an uninterrupted human presence on the ...

) *First person to command five space missions and tallest person in space: James Wetherbee (November 23, 2002,

STS-113 STS-113 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle '' Endeavour''. During the 14-day mission in late 2002, ''Endeavour'' and its crew extended the ISS backbone with the P1 truss and exchanged the ...

) *First submariner in space: Michael McCulley (October 18, 1989, STS-34)

Group members

Pilots

Kenneth D. Cameron Kenneth Donald Cameron (born November 29, 1949), (Col, USMC, Ret.), is a retired American naval aviator, test pilot, engineer, U.S. Marine Corps officer, and NASA astronaut. Background Cameron was born November 29, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio. ...

(born 1949), U.S. Marine Corps (3 flights) :

STS-37 STS-37, the thirty-ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the eighth flight of the Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', was a six-day mission with the primary objective of launching the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second of the Great Observ ...

— April 1991 — Pilot —

Compton Gamma Ray Observatory The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) was a space observatory detecting photons with photon energy, energies from 20 kElectronvolt#Properties, eV to 30 GeV, in Earth orbit from 1991 to 2000. The observatory featured four main tele ...

deployment : STS-56 — April 1993 — Commander — ATLAS-2, solar observation experiments, first radio contact between the Space Shuttle and ''Mir'' :STS-74 — November 1995 — Commander — Second ''Mir'' docking, fourth Shuttle-Mir mission *John H. Casper (born 1943), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) :STS-36 — February 1990 — Pilot — Classified United States Department of Defense mission, deployed USA-53 (Misty (satellite), Misty) :STS-54 — January 1993 — Commander — TDRS-6 deployment :STS-62 — March 1994 — Commander — USMP-02 microgravity experiment package and OAST-2 payload :STS-77 — May 1996 — Commander — SPACEHAB mission *Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. (born 1949), U.S. Navy (5 flights) :STS-38 — November 1990 — Pilot — Classified United States Department of Defense mission, spy satellite deployment :STS-51 — September 1993 — Commander — Advanced Communications Technology Satellite deployment :STS-105 — August 2001 — Mission Specialist —

mission, crew rotation and delivery of Multi Purpose Logistics Module, MPLM ''Leonardo'' :ISS Expedition 3 — August–December 2001 — Commander :STS-108 — December 2001 — Mission Specialist —

mission, crew rotation and delivery of Multi Purpose Logistics Module, MPLM ''Raffaello'' *Sidney M. Gutierrez (born 1951), U.S. Air Force (2 flights) :

— June 1991 — Pilot — Spacelab mission :STS-59 — April 1994 — Commander — SRL-1 radar observations *L. Blaine Hammond, Jr. (born 1952), U.S. Air Force (2 flights) :STS-39 — April 1991 — Pilot — First unclassified United States Department of Defense mission :STS-64 — September 1994 — Pilot — Earth and solar observations, first untethered spacewalk since STS-51-A *Michael J. McCulley (born 1943), U.S. Navy (1 flight) : STS-34 — October 1989 — Pilot — Deployment of ''Galileo (spacecraft), Galileo'' orbiter and probe to Jupiter *James D. Wetherbee, James D. "Wxb" Wetherbee (born 1952), U.S. Navy (6 flights) :STS-32 — January 1990 — Pilot — Long Duration Exposure Facility retrieval, deployment of SYNCOM IV-F5 :STS-52 — October 1992 — Commander — LAGEOS-II deployment, USMP-01 microgravity experiment package :STS-63 — February 1995 — Commander — First rendezvous of the Space Shuttle and ''Mir'', second Shuttle-Mir mission, first Shuttle mission with female Pilot :STS-86 — September 1997 — Commander — Seventh ''Mir'' docking :STS-102 — March 2001 — Commander —

mission, crew rotation and delivery of Multi Purpose Logistics Module, MPLM ''Leonardo'' :

— November 2002 — Commander —

mission, crew rotation and installment of P1 truss, last successful Shuttle mission before the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, ''Columbia'' disaster

Mission Specialists

*James C. Adamson (born 1946), U.S. Army (2 flights) :STS-28 — August 1989 — Mission Specialist — Classified United States Department of Defense mission, USA-40 and USA-41 deployments :STS-43 — August 1991 — Mission Specialist — TDRS-5 deployment *Ellen S. Baker (born 1953), Physician (3 flights) : STS-34 — October 1989 — Mission Specialist — Deployment of ''Galileo (spacecraft), Galileo'' orbiter and probe to Jupiter :STS-50 — June 1992 — Mission Specialist — USML-1 microgravity laboratory mission, first use of Extended Duration Orbiter package and first landing of ''Columbia'' at Kennedy Space Center :STS-71 — June 1995 — Mission Specialist — First docking with ''Mir'', third Shuttle-Mir mission, ''Mir'' crew rotation *Mark N. Brown (born 1951), U.S. Air Force (2 flights) :STS-28 — August 1989 — Mission Specialist — Classified United States Department of Defense mission, USA-40 and USA-41 deployments :STS-48 — September 1991 — Mission Specialist — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite deployment *Sonny Carter, Manley L. "Sonny" Carter, Jr. (1947–1991), U.S. Navy (1 flight) :STS-33 — November 1989 — Mission Specialist — Classified United States Department of Defense mission, USA-48 deployment, first night launch since ''Challenger'' disaster *Marsha S. Ivins (born 1951), Engineer (5 flights) :STS-32 — January 1990 — Mission Specialist — Long Duration Exposure Facility retrieval, deployment of SYNCOM IV-F5 :STS-46 — July 1992 — Mission Specialist — European Retrievable Carrier deployment, tethered satellite experiments :STS-62 — March 1994 — Mission Specialist — USMP-02 microgravity experiment package and OAST-2 payload :STS-81 — January 1997 — Mission Specialist — Third ''Mir'' docking, fifth Shuttle-Mir mission, ''Mir'' crew rotation :STS-98 — February 2001 — Mission Specialist —

mission, installment of Destiny Laboratory Module *Mark C. Lee (born 1952), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) :STS-30 — May 1989 — Mission Specialist — Deployment of ''Magellan (spacecraft), Magellan'' probe to Venus :STS-47 — September 1992 — Payload Commander — Spacelab mission, first Japanese astronaut to fly on the Shuttle, first African-American woman in space, first married couple in space :STS-64 — September 1994 — Mission Specialist — Earth and solar observations, first untethered spacewalk since STS-51-A :STS-82 — February 1997 — Mission Specialist — Second Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission *G. David Low (1956–2008), Engineer (3 flights) :STS-32 — January 1990 — Mission Specialist — Long Duration Exposure Facility retrieval, deployment of SYNCOM IV-F5 :STS-43 — August 1991 — Mission Specialist — TDRS-5 deployment :STS-57 — June 1993 — Mission Specialist — European Retrievable Carrier retrieval, SPACEHAB mission *William M. Shepherd (born 1949), U.S. Navy (6 flights) : STS-27 — December 1988 — Mission Specialist — Classified United States Department of Defense mission, USA-34 (Lacrosse (satellite), Lacrosse-1) deployment :STS-41 — October 1990 — Mission Specialist — Deployment of Ulysses (spacecraft), Ulysses probe into polar orbit of the Sun :STS-52 — October 1992 — Mission Specialist — LAGEOS-II deployment, USMP-01 microgravity experiment package :Soyuz TM-31 — October 2000 — Flight Engineer — First Soyuz spacecraft to dock with the

:ISS

— November 2000–March 2001 — Commander — First long-duration

crew :STS-102 — March 2001 — Mission Specialist —

mission, crew rotation and delivery of Multi Purpose Logistics Module, MPLM ''Leonardo'' *Kathryn C. Thornton (born 1952), Physicist (4 flights) :STS-33 — November 1989 — Mission Specialist — Classified United States Department of Defense mission, USA-48 deployment, first night launch since ''Challenger'' disaster :STS-49 — May 1992 — Mission Specialist — Maiden flight of ''Space Shuttle Endeavour, Endeavour'', Intelsat 603 retrieval and relaunch :STS-61 — December 1993 — Mission Specialist — First Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission :STS-73 — October 1995 — Mission Specialist — USML-2 microgravity laboratory mission *Charles Veach (1944–1995), U.S. Air Force (2 flights) :STS-39 — April 1991 — Mission Specialist — First unclassified United States Department of Defense mission :STS-52 — October 1992 — Mission Specialist — LAGEOS-II deployment, USMP-01 microgravity experiment package

External links

References

{{reflist NASA Astronaut Corps Lists of astronauts