STS-114 Mission

Launch Service Provider

United Space Alliance

Vehicle

Space Shuttle

Crew

Eileen Collins

James M. Kelly

Charles Camarda

Soichi Noguchi

Andy Thomas

Stephen Robinson

Wendy B. Lawrence

STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Discovery launched at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC), 26 July 2005. The launch, 907 days (approx. 29 months) after the loss of Columbia, was approved despite unresolved fuel sensor anomalies in the external tank that had prevented the shuttle from launching on 13 July, its originally scheduled date.