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Names | Space Transportation System |
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Mission type | TDRS-D satellite deployment (planned) |
Operator | NASA |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Space Shuttle Challenger (planned) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 6 |
Members | Loren J. Shriver Bryan D. O'Connor Mark C. Lee Sally K. Ride William Frederick Fisher Robert Wood |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | July 22, 1986 (planned) Not launched |
Rocket | Space Shuttle Challenger |
Launch site | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
Contractor | Rockwell International |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric orbit (planned) |
Regime | Low Earth orbit |
Perigee altitude | 285 km (177 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 295 km (183 mi) |
Inclination | 28.45° |
Period | 90.40 minutes |
Space Shuttle patch Cancelled Shuttle missions |
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).
Payload was to have been TDRS-D of the U.S. tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) satellites.
Position | Astronaut | |
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Commander | Loren J. Shriver Would have been second spaceflight | |
Pilot | Bryan D. O'Connor Would have been second spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 1 | Mark C. Lee Would have been first spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 2 | Sally K. Ride Would have been third spaceflight | |
Mission Specialist 3 | William F. Fisher Would have been second spaceflight | |
Payload Specialist 1 | Robert Wood Would have been first spaceflight |
Position | Astronaut | |
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Payload Specialist 1 | Charles D. Walker Would have been fourth spaceflight |