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(for the article Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
Background[change | change source]
Planned mission[change | change source]
The mission of this flight was named STS-51-L. It was the tenth mission for Challenger. STS-51-L was scheduled to deploy the second in a series of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, carry out the first flight of the "Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy" (SPARTAN-203) / Halley's Comet Experiment Deployable in order to observe Halley's Comet, and carry out several lessons from space as part of the Teacher in Space Project and Shuttle Student Involvement Program (SSIP). One of the crew members of this mission, Gregory Jarvis, was originally scheduled to fly on the previous shuttle flight (STS-61-C). However, he was reassigned to this flight and replaced by Congressman Bill Nelson.[1]
Crew[change | change source]
The crew had seven members and two backup members.
| Position | Astronaut | |
|---|---|---|
| Commander | Francis R. Scobee Would have been second spaceflight | |
| Pilot | Michael J. Smith Would have been first spaceflight | |
| Mission Specialist 1 | Ellison S. Onizuka Would have been second spaceflight | |
| Mission Specialist 2 | Judith A. Resnik Would have been second spaceflight | |
| Mission Specialist 3 | Ronald E. McNair Would have been second spaceflight | |
| Payload Specialist 1 | Gregory B. Jarvis Would have been first spaceflight Hughes Space and Communications | |
| Payload Specialist 2 | S. Christa McAuliffe Would have been first spaceflight Teacher in Space | |
| Position | Astronaut | |
|---|---|---|
| Payload Specialist 1 | L. William Butterworth Would have been first spaceflight Hughes Space and Communications | |
| Payload Specialist 2[2] | Barbara R. Morgan Would have been first spaceflight Teacher in Space | |
| Morgan would be selected as a NASA astronaut in 1998 and flew on STS-118 in 2007 as a mission specialist. | ||
- ↑ Mullane, Mike (2006). Riding Rockets. Simon and Schuster. pp. 204–205. ISBN 9780743276825.
- ↑ "S. Christa Corrigan McAuliffe". Biographical Data. NASA. April 2007. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
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