Space shuttle nasa mission reports: 1985

These official final orbiter mission reports issued by the NASA Johnson Space Center cover missions in 1985: STS 51-C, STS 51-D, STS 51-B, STS 51-G, STS 51-F, STS 51-I, STS 51-J, STS 61-A, STS 61-B. In these thorough reports, with information and specifics not available on NASA website mission descriptions, each orbiter system is reviewed in detail along with technical information on performance and anomalies.STS 51-C: The crew for the STS 51-C mission were Thomas K. Mattingly, Capt., U.S. Navy, Commander; Loren J. Shiver, Maj., U.S. Air Force, Pilot; Ellison S. Onizuka, Maj., U.S. Air Force, and James F. Buchli, Maj., U.S. Air Force, Mission Specialist; and Gary E. Payton, Maj., U.S. Air Force, Payload Specialist.STS 51-D: The crew for this sixteenth flight of Space Shuttle were Karol J. Bobko, Col., USAF, Commander; Donald E. Williams, Cdr., U.S. Navy, Pilot; M. Rhea Seddon, M.D., S. David Griggs, and Jeffrey A. Hoffman, PhD., Mission Specialists; and Charles Walker and U.S. Senator Edwin Garn, Payload Specialists.STS 51-B: The crew for this seventeenth flight of the Space Shuttle and second flight of Spacelab were Robert F. Overmyer, Col., U. S. Marine Corp., Commander; Frederick D. Gregory, Col., U. S. Air Force, Pilot; Don L. Lind, Ph.D., Norman E. Thagard, M.D., and William E. Thornton, M.D., Mission Specialists; Lodewijk van den Berg, Ph.D., and Taylor Wang, Ph.D., Payload Specialists.STS 51-G: The crew for STS 51-G was Daniel C. Brandenstein, Capt., U. S. Navy, Commander; John O. Creighton, Cdr., U. S. Navy, Pilot; Steven R. Nagel, Lt. Col., U. S. Air Force, John M. Fabian, Col., U. S. Air Force, and Shannon W. Lucid, Ph.D., Mission Specialists; and Patrick Baudry and Sultan Salman Al-Saud, Payload Specialists.STS 51-F: The crew for this nineteenth flight of the Space Shuttle and third flight of Spacelab were C. Gordon Fullerton, Col., U. S. Air Force, Commander; Roy D. Bridges, Col., U. S. Air Force, Pilot; Karl G. Henize, Ph.D., Anthony W. England, Ph.D., and F. Story Musgrave, M.D., Mission Specialists; and Loren W. Acton, Ph.D., and John-David Bartoe, Ph.D., Payload Specialists.STS 51-I: The crew for this twentieth mission of the Space Shuttle was Joe H. Engle, Col., U.S. Air Force, Commander; Richard O. Covey, Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force, Pilot; James D. A. van Hoften, Ph.D., John M. Lounge, and William F. Fisher, M. D., Mission Specialists.STS 51-J: The STS 51-J mission was launched on October 3, 1985, at 273:15:15:30 G.m.t., from KSC with five crew members. The crew members for this mission were Karol J. Bobko, Col., U. S. Air Force, Commander; Ronald J. Grabe, Lt. Col., U. S. Air Force, Pilot; David C. Hilmers, Maj., U. S. Marine Corp., and Robert C. Stewart, Col., U. S. Army, Mission Specialists; and William A. Pailes, Maj., U. S. Air Force, Payload Specialist.STS 61-A: The crew for this twenty-second flight of the Space Shuttle was Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., Commander; Steven R. Nagel, Lt. Col., U. S. Air Force, Pilot; James F. Buchli, Col., U. S. Marine Corp., Guion S. Bluford, Jr., Col., U. S. Air Force, and Bonnie J. Dunbar, Ph.D., Mission Specialists; and Reinhard Furrer, Ph.D., Ernest Messerschmidt, Ph.D., and Wubbo J. Ockels, Ph.D., Payload Specialists.STS 61-B: The crew for the twenty-third mission of the Space Shuttle was Brewster H. Shaw Lt. Col., U. S. Air Force, Commander; Bryan D. OConner, Maj., U. S. Marine Corp, Pilot; Mary L. Cleave, Ph.D., Jerry L. Ross, Maj. U. S. Air Force, and Sherwood C. Spring, Lt. Col., U. S. Army, Mission Specialists; and Rodolfo Neri Vela, Ph.D., and Charles Walker, Payload Specialists.