NASA Astronaut Group 13 (the Hairballs) was a group of 23 astronauts announced by NASA on 17 January 1990. The group name came from its selection of a black cat as a mascot, to play against the traditional unlucky connotations of the number 13.

Pilots

*Kenneth Cockrell (born 1950), U.S. Navy (5 flights) :STS-56 (Science Mission; Flew as a Mission specialist) :STS-69 (2nd flight of the Wake Shield Facility) :STS-80 (3rd flight of the Wake Shield Facility) :STS-98 (ISS Assembly Mission - Launched the Destiny Laboratory Module) :STS-111 (ISS Resupply Mission; Launched Expedition 5) *Eileen Collins (born 1956), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) :STS-63 (Shuttle-Mir Mission; became the first female pilot of a U.S. Spacecraft) :STS-84 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-93 (Deployed Chandra X-Ray Observatory; became the first female commander of a U.S. Spacecraft) :STS-114 (STS-114, Return to Flight) *William G. Gregory (born 1957), U.S. Air Force (1 flight) :STS-67 (2nd flight of the ASTRO telescope) *James D. Halsell (born 1956), U.S. Air Force (5 flights) :STS-65 (Science Mission) :STS-74 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-83 (Intended to be a Science Mission; Mission cut short due to fuel cell problems) :STS-94 (Science Mission using experiments intended to be conducted on STS-83) :STS-101 (ISS Supply Mission) *Charles J. Precourt (born 1955), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) :STS-55 (Germany, German Spacelab Mission) :STS-71 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-84 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-91 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) *Richard A. Searfoss (1956-2018), U.S. Air Force (3 flights) :STS-58 (Science Mission) :STS-76 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-90 (Science Mission) *Terrence W. Wilcutt (born 1949), U.S. Marine Corps (4 flights) :STS-68 (Science Mission) :STS-79 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-89 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-106 (ISS Supply Mission) :Nasa astronaut group 13

Mission specialists

*Daniel W. Bursch (born 1957), U.S. Navy (4 flights) :STS-51 (Launched the ACTS satellite) :STS-68 (Science Mission) :STS-77 (Spartan-207) :STS-108 (ISS Resupply Mission) :ISS Expedition 4 (6 month mission to the ISS) :STS-111 (The mission landed Expedition 4) *Leroy Chiao (born 1960), Engineer (4 flights) :STS-65 (Science Mission) :STS-72 (Returned Japan, Japan's Space Flyer Unit) :STS-92 (ISS Assembly Mission - Launched the Integrated Truss Structure#Z1 truss, Z1 Truss Segment and PMA-3) :Soyuz TMA-5 (The launch and landing vehicle of Expedition 10) :ISS Expedition 10 (6 month mission to the ISS) *Michael R. Clifford (1952-2021), U.S. Army (3 flights) :STS-53 (Classified US Department of Defense, DoD Mission) :STS-59 (Science Mission) :STS-76 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) *Nancy J. Currie (born 1958), U.S. Army (4 flights) :STS-57 (Science Mission) :STS-70 (Launched TDRS, TDRS 7) :STS-88 (ISS Assembly Mission - Launched Unity (ISS module), Unity (Node 1), PMA-1, and PMA-2) :STS-109 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission; Space Shuttle Columbia, ''Columbia's'' last successful flight) *Bernard A. Harris, Jr. (born 1956), Physician (2 flights) :STS-55 (Germany, German Spacelab Mission) :STS-63 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) *Susan J. Helms (born 1958), U.S. Air Force (5 flights) :STS-54 (Launched TDRS, TDRS 6) :STS-64 (Science Mission) :STS-78 (Science Mission) :STS-101 (ISS Supply Mission) :STS-102 (The mission launched Expedition 2) :ISS Expedition 2 (6 month mission to the ISS) :STS-105 (The mission landed Expedition 2) *Thomas David Jones, Thomas D. Jones (born 1955), U.S. Air Force (4 flights) :STS-59 (Science Mission) :STS-68 (Science Mission) :STS-80 (3rd flight of the Wake Shield Facility) :STS-98 (ISS Assembly Mission - Launched the Destiny Laboratory Module) *William S. McArthur (born 1951), U.S. Army (4 flights) :STS-58 (Science Mission) :STS-74 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-92 (ISS Assembly Mission - Launched the Integrated Truss Structure#Z1 truss, Z1 Truss Segment and PMA-3) :Soyuz TMA-7 (The launch and landing vehicle of Expedition 12) :ISS Expedition 12 (6 month mission to the ISS; was the Expedition 12 CDR) *James H. Newman (born 1956), Physicist (4 flights) :STS-51 (Launched the ACTS satellite) :STS-69 (2nd flight of the Wake Shield Facility) :STS-88 (ISS Assembly Mission - Launched Unity (ISS module), Unity (Node 1), PMA-1, and PMA-2) :STS-109 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission; Space Shuttle Columbia, ''Columbia's'' last successful flight) *Ellen Ochoa (born 1958), Engineer (4 flights) :STS-56 (Science Mission) :STS-66 (Science Mission - ATLAS-03) :STS-96 (ISS Supply Mission) :STS-110 (Launched the Integrated Truss Structure#S0 truss, S0 Truss Segment) *Ronald M. Sega (born 1952), U.S. Air Force (2 flights) :STS-60 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-76 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) *Donald A. Thomas (born 1955), Engineer (4 flights) :STS-65 (Science Mission) :STS-70 (Launched TDRS, TDRS 7) :STS-83 (Intended to be a Science Mission; Mission cut short due to fuel cell problems) :STS-94 (Science Mission using experiments intended to be conducted on STS-83) *Janice E. Voss (1956-2012), Engineer (5 flights) :STS-57 (Science Mission) :STS-63 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-83 (Intended to be a Science Mission; Mission cut short due to fuel cell problems) :STS-94 (Science Mission using experiments intended to be conducted on STS-83) :STS-99 (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) *Carl Walz (1955), Physicist (5 flights) :STS-51 (Satellite deployment Astronomy) :STS-65 (Micro-gravity research) :STS-79 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-108 (Crew rotation to the International Space Station ISS) :ISS Expedition 4 (6 month mission to the ISS) :STS-111 (Crew rotation to the International Space Station ISS) *Peter Wisoff (1958), Physicist (4 flights) :STS-57 (1st flight of Spacehab - Satellite retrieval) :STS-68 (Space Radar Lab-2 (SRL-2) ) :STS-81 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-92 (delivered the Z1 truss and Pressurized Mating Adapter 3 to the International Space Station ISS) *David Wolf (astronaut), David Wolf (1956), Medical Doctor, Engineer, Inventor (5 flights) :STS-58 (Spacelab Life Sciences 2) :STS-86 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-89 (Shuttle-Mir Mission) :STS-112 (delivered the S1 truss segment to the International Space Station ISS) :STS-127 (install the final two components of the Japanese Experiment Module)

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