Stock Photo - 11/19/1996 __ Vividly framed by a tranquil Florida landscape, the Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at 2:55:47 p.m. EST, Nov. 19, 1996. Leading the veteran crew of Mission STS_80 is Commander Kenneth D. Cockrell, Kent V. Rominger is the pilot and the three mission specialists are Tamara E. Jernigan, Story Musgrave and Thomas D. Jones. At age 61, Musgrave becomes the oldest person ever to fly in space, he also ties astronaut John Young’s record for most number of spaceflights by a human being, and in embarking on his sixth Shuttle flight Musgrave has logged the most flights ever aboard NASA’s reusable space vehicle. The two primary payloads for STS_80 are the Wake Shield Facility_3 WSF_3 and the Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer_Shuttle Pallet Satellite II ORFEUS_SPAS II. Two spacewalks also will be performed during the nearly 16_day mission. Mission STS_80 closes out the Shuttle flight schedule for 1996, it marks the 21st flight for Columbia and the 80th in Shuttle program history.