STS-35 Mission Patch

38th Space Shuttle Mission

10th Flight of Columbia Crew:

Vance D. Brand, Commander

Guy S. Gardner, Pilot

Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Mission Specialist

John M. Lounge, Mission Specialist

Robert A. R. Parker, Mission Specialist

Ronald A. Parise, Payload Specialist

Samuel T. Durrance, Payload Specialist

The mission's primary objective was the observation of celestial sphere of ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy with the ASTRO-1 observatory. ASTRO-1 consisted of the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE), Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) and Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT).