STS-61-A was the ninth and last successful flight of Space Shuttle Challenger before the disaster. STS-61-A holds the current record for the largest crew—eight people—aboard any single spacecraft for the entire period from launch to landing.

2023年7月24日 · STS-61A was the 22nd mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. STS-61A Crew photo with Commander Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., Pilot Steven R. Nagel, Mission Specialists James F. Buchli, Guion S. Bluford, Bonnie J. Dunbar and Payload Specialists Reinhard Furrer, Ernst Messerschmid and Wubbo J. Ockels. Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., Commander.

STS -61A holds the record for the largest crew: eight people, aboard any single spacecraft for the entire period from launch to landing. The primary task of STS -61A was to conduct a series of experiments, almost all related to functions in microgravity, in Spacelab D-1, the fourth flight of a Spacelab orbital laboratory module.

STS-61A Fact Sheet. By Cliff Lethbridge. STS-61A — Challenger. 22nd Space Shuttle Mission. 9th Flight of Challenger. Crew: Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr., Commander. Steven R. Nagel, Pilot. James F. Buchli, Mission Specialist. Guion S. Bluford, Jr., Mission Specialist. Bonnie J. Dunbar, Mission Specialist. Reinhard Furrer, Payload Specialist

STS-61-A是历史上第二十二次航天飞机任务，也是挑战者号航天飞机的第九次太空飞行。 发射地点是佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心.

Digitized, cataloged and archived by the Houston Audio Control Room, at the NASA Johnson Space Center. October 30, 1985, 12:00:00 noon EST. Launch proceeded as scheduled with no delays. Launch Weight: 243,762 lbs. Duration: 7 days, 0 hours, 44 minutes, 51 seconds. November 6,1985,9:44:51 a.m. PST, Runway 17, Edwards Air Force Base. Calif.

1993年12月2日 · Seven-hour, 54-minute space walk second longest in U.S. history to date, topped only by STS-49 EVA lasting eight hours, 29 minutes. During EVAs, Nicollier operated robot arm carrying one of two EVA crew members.

The STS 61-A National Space Transportation System (STS) Mission Report contains a summary of the major activities and accomplishments of the twenty-second Space Shuttle mission and the ninth flight of the OV-099 vehicle, Challenger.

Mission STS -61 was the first in a series of planned visits to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The first HST servicing mission had three primary objectives: restoring the planned scientific capabilities, restoring reliability of HST systems and validating the HST on …

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 West Germany – hence the non-NASA designation of D-1 (for Deutschland-1 ).