STS-61-E was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 6 March 1986 using Columbia. It was canceled after the Challenger disaster. Columbia was...
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STS-61-C was the 24th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the seventh mission of Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first time that Columbia,...
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STS-61-F was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 15 May 1986 using Challenger. It was canceled after Challenger was destroyed earlier that...
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Shuttle missions in the early and mid-1980s with designations derived from STS-61. The ambiguity was the result of a NASA decision to change designation of...
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STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was planned as the first...
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astronaut with NASA, a role in which he piloted STS-41-G, and would have been commander of STS-61-E had the mission not been canceled in the wake of...
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canceled after the Challenger disaster. Before Buchli was assigned to STS-61-H, Norman E. Thagard was the potential Mission Specialist 3 for this flight. The...
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The next shuttle mission, STS-51-L, was undertaken by Challenger. It was launched on January 28, 1986, ten days after STS-61-C had landed, and ended in...
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S. Space Shuttle missions—STS-51-L and STS-61-E—had been scheduled to observe Halley's Comet from low Earth orbit. The STS-51-L mission carried the Shuttle-Pointed...
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shuttle mission after Challenger's ill-fated STS-51-L as STS-61-E in March 1986. The mission was remanifested as STS-35 during the long stand-down after the...
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Canceled Space Shuttle missions (redirect from STS-51-E)
2010. "STS-61-J". Encyclopedia Astronautica. 17 November 2007. Archived from the original on 8 January 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2010. "STS-61-N". Encyclopedia...
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STS-61-G was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 20 May 1986, using Atlantis. The main objective of this mission was to launch the Galileo...
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Discovery, mission STS-48. Later the cameras were flown on several other Shuttle missions including STS-44, 45, 42, 49, 53, 56 and 61. Although the camera...
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Story Musgrave (section STS-61)
missions, STS-31, STS-35, STS-36, STS-38 and STS-41. He was a mission specialist on STS-6 (1983), STS-51-F/Spacelab-2 (1985), STS-33 (1989), STS-44 (1991)...
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Ken Bowersox (section STS-61)
Florida on July 9, 1992, at 11:42:27 UTC.: 5 Bowersox's second mission was STS-61 aboard the Endeavour, in which he served as the pilot. The mission was launched...
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NASA Astronaut Corps (section E)
STS-86, STS-97, STS-110 Guion Bluford – STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53 Karol Bobko – STS-6, STS-51-D, STS-51-J Charles Bolden – STS-61-C, STS-31, STS-45,...
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the star beta Pictoris. In March 1986, Durrance's first mission was for STS-61-E. It was canceled after the Challenger disaster. Durrance logged over 615...
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by STS-41-B. After this mission, Columbia was taken out of service for renovations and did not fly again until STS-61-C in early January 1986. STS-9 sent...
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List of astronauts by name (section E)
Blaha — STS-29, STS-33, STS-43, STS-58, STS-79/81 Michael J. Bloomfield — STS-86, STS-97, STS-110 Guion Bluford — STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53 Karol...
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STS-82, STS-103, STS-110 Fayetteville: Richard O. Covey — STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-38, STS-61 Little Rock: Scott E. Parazynski — STS-66, STS-86, STS-95...
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List of space travelers by nationality (section E)
STS-51-F (1985), STS-33 (1989), STS-44 (1991), STS-61 (1993), STS-80 (1996) Steven R. Nagel — STS-51-G (1985), STS-61-A (1985), STS-37 (1991), STS-55 (1993)...
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dozens of subsequent shuttle missions, including the next scheduled launch, STS-61-E, planned for March 6, 1986, with a payload including the ASTRO-1 observatory...
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The Cadillac STS (Seville Touring Sedan) is a mid-sized luxury 4-door sedan manufactured and marketed by General Motors from 2004 to 2011 for the 2005...
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Columbia on 39A. This mission was originally to be flown in August 1986 as STS-61-J using Atlantis, but was postponed due to the Challenger disaster. John...
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1989. The mission was technically designated STS-29R as the original STS-29 designator belonged to STS-61-A, the 22nd Space Shuttle mission. Official documentation...
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Office. Retrieved August 14, 2022. Lee, Russell (August 4, 2022). "Northrop P-61 Black Widow: First American Airplane Designed and Built to Fight at Night...
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Thomas Akers (section STS-61)
Home Improvement as himself along with rest of the STS-61 crew. His last mission was in 1996 on STS-79, the 17th flight of shuttle Atlantis. This was the...
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Nagel later flew as the pilot on STS-61-A and as the commander on STS-37 and STS-55. Griggs was assigned as the STS-33 pilot, but he was killed in an...
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(turnaround time) when it launched in November 1985 on STS-61-B, only 50 days after its previous mission, STS-51-J in October 1985. Atlantis was then used for...
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mission. STS-47 launched from Pad 39B at 10:23:00 a.m. EDT on September 12, 1992, and was the first on-time mission without launch delays since STS-61-B in...
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