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    STS-61-A (also known as Spacelab D-1) was the 22nd mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. It was a scientific Spacelab mission, funded and directed by...
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    STS-61-M was a proposed NASA Space Shuttle program mission, planned for July 1986 but canceled following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (STS-51-L)...
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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-B was the 23rd NASA Space Shuttle mission, and its second using Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida...
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    a 56-hour-long simulated mission known as STS-61-M(T) in 1987. The crew finally flew on STS-29, with Anna L. Fisher being replaced by James P. Bagian...
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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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    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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    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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  • 2016. "STS-62-B". Encyclopedia Astronautica. 17 November 2007. Archived from the original on 8 January 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2010. "STS-61-L". Encyclopedia...
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    STS-61-J was a canceled launch of NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis, planned for August 1986 to launch the Hubble Space Telescope. It was canceled due to the...
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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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    Challenger disaster of STS-51-L. Under the new system, STS-9 would have been designated as STS-41-A. STS-9's originally planned successor, STS-10, was canceled...
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    mission contained the designator STS-28 throughout. As STS-51-L was designated STS-33, future flights with the STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require...
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  • Thumbnail for Cadillac STS
    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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  • Thumbnail for Frank L. Culbertson Jr.
    support team at Kennedy Space Center for Shuttle flights STS-61-A, STS-61-B, STS-61-C, and STS-51-L; in 1986 he worked at the NASA Headquarters Action Center...
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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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  • 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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    required on mission numbering. As STS-51-L was also designated STS-33, future flights with the previous STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require the...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    mission contained the designator STS-30 throughout. As STS-51-L was designated STS-33, future flights with the STS-26 through STS-33 designators would require...
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    STS-69 (1995), STS-83 (1997), STS-94 (1997), STS-104 (2001) Edward Gibson — Skylab 4 (1973) Robert L. Gibson — STS-41-B (1984), STS-61-C (1985), STS-27...
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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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    August 1979. Gibson flew five missions: STS-41-B in 1984, STS-61-C in 1986, STS-27 in 1988, STS-47 in 1992, and STS-71 in 1995. Gibson served as Chief of...
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  • Thumbnail for Michael Coats
    selected as the commander of STS-61-H, which was subsequently canceled after the Challenger accident. As commander of STS-29, Coats and his crew launched...
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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of the STS-51-L mission
    The STS-51-L mission started with the ignition of Challenger's main engines until the remote destruction of the two Solid rocket boosters (SRBs), and includes...
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    94 million miles. She was a mission specialist on STS-61-B (November 26 to December 3, 1985) and STS-30 (May 4–8, 1989). Cleave left JSC in May 1991 to...
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    1986, STS-61-C) First Dutch citizen in space: Wubbo Ockels (October 30, 1985, STS-61-A) First Swiss astronaut: Claude Nicollier (July 31, 1992, STS-46)...
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    new flight designations. The crew roster for STS-26 was based on the original crew assignment for STS-61-F, which would have launched the Ulysses probe...
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