February 22, 2014

Dale Gardner's official NASA picture

Wednesday February 19, 2014 the astronaut Dale Gardner passed away due to a brain aneurysm. During his career as an astronaut, he flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in mission STS-8 and on the Space Shuttle Discovery in mission STS-51-A. In his last mission, he recovered two satellites placed in the wrong orbit using a jetpack.