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| STS-51C | January 24, 1985 (19:50 GMT) |
January 27, 1985 (21:23 GMT) |
Commander: Thomas Mattingly (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 5) |
USA | M | Perigee: 407 km Apogee: 407 km Inclination: 28.5° 49 orbits |
| Pilot: Loren Shriver (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Ellison Onizuka (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (3rd Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
4th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 15) |
Mission Specialist 2: James Buchli (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Time 3 days 1 hour 33 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 1: Gary Payton (1st Flight) (DOD MSE Group 1) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Keith Wright | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-51D | April 12, 1985 (13:59 GMT) |
April 19, 1985 (13:54 GMT) |
Commander: Karol Bobko (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 7) |
USA | M | Perigee: 528 km Apogee: 528 km Inclination: 28.5° 110 orbits 1 spacewalk |
| Pilot: Donald Williams (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Margaret Rhea Seddon (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: David Griggs (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Jeffrey Hoffman (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (4th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
5th landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Runway 33) |
Payload Specialist 1: Senator E.J. "Jake" Garn (1st Flight) (Congress Observer) |
USA | M | Time 6 days 23 hours 55 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Charles Walker (2nd Flight) (McDonnel Douglas) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 2: Robert Wood | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-51B | April 29, 1985 (16:02 GMT) |
May 6, 1985 (16:11 GMT) |
Commander: Robert Overmyer (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 7) |
USA | M | Perigee: 411 km Apogee: 411 km Inclination: 57° 111 orbits |
| Pilot: Frederick Gregory (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Donald Lind (1st Flight) (NASA Group 5) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Norman Thagard (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: William Thornton (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 6) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) (7th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
11th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 17) |
Payload Specialist 1: Taylor Wang (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for SL-3) |
USA | M | Time 7 days 0 hours 8 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Lodewijk van den Berg (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for SL-3) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Eugene Trinh | USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Mary Johnston | USA | F | ||||
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| Soyuz T-13 (7K-ST #19L) |
June 6, 1985 (06:39 GMT) |
September 26, 1985 (09:51 GMT) |
Commander: Vladimir Dzhanibekov (5th Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 5) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 328 km Apogee: 381 km Inclination: 51.6° 1,774 orbits |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
220 km NE of Dzhezkazgan (49° N, 70° E) |
Flight Engineer: Viktor Savinkyh (2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 4) (Down - Soyuz T-14) (168 days 3 hours 51 minutes) |
USSR | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 #008 |
Docked with Salyut 7 June 8, 1985 (08:50 GMT) (Forward Port) |
Undocked from Salyut 7 September 25, 1985 (03:58 GMT) (Forward Port) |
Backup Crew: Leonid Popov | USSR | M | Time 112 days 3 hours 12 minutes |
| Backup Crew: Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov | USSR | M | ||||
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| STS-51G | June 17, 1985 (11:33 GMT) |
June 24, 1985 (13:11 GMT) |
Commander: Daniel Brandenstein (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Perigee: 387 km Apogee: 387 km Inclination: 28.45° 112 orbits |
| Pilot: John Creighton (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: John Fabian (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Steven Nagel (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Shannon Lucid (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (5th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
12th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 23) |
Payload Specialist 1: Patrick Baudry (1st Flight) (CNES Group 1) |
France | M | Time 7 days 1 hour 38 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Sultan Salman Al-Saud (1st Flight) (Saudi Arabian Payload Specialist) |
Saudi Arabia | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Jean-Loup Chrétien | France | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 2: Abdulmohsen Al-Bassam | Saudi Arabia | M | ||||
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| STS-51F | July 29, 1985 (21:00 GMT) |
August 6, 1985 (19:45 GMT) |
Commander: Gordon Fullerton (2nd Orbital Flight) (NASA Group 7) |
USA | M | Perigee: 320 km Apogee: 320 km Inclination: 49.5° 127 orbits Abort to Orbit |
| Pilot: Roy Bridges (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Karl Henize (1st Flight) (NASA Group 6) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Story Musgrave (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 6) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Anthony England (1st Flight) (NASA Group 6) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) (8th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
13th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 23) |
Payload Specialist 1: Loren Acton (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for SL-2) |
USA | M | Time 7 days 22 hours 45 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: John-David Bartoe (1st Flight) (NASA Payload Specialist for SL-2) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Dianne Prinz | USA | F | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: George Simon | USA | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Taxi Test 2 |
August 2, 1985 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (2nd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 200 kph | |
| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (2nd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 14 minutes |
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| STS-51I | August 27, 1985 (10:58 GMT) |
September 3, 1985 (13:15 GMT) |
Commander: Joseph Engle (2nd Orbital Flight) (NASA Group 5) |
USA | M | Perigee: 448 km Apogee: 448 km Inclination: 28.45° 112 orbits 2 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Richard Covey (1st Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: James van Hoften (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) (6th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
14th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 23) |
Mission Specialist 2: John Michael Lounge (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | Time 7 days 2 hours 17 minutes |
| Mission Specialist 3: William Fisher (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
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| Soyuz T-14 (7K-ST #20L) |
September 17, 1985 (12:38 GMT) |
November 21, 1985 (10:31 GMT) |
Commander: Vladimir Vasyutin (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 6) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 328 km Apogee: 381 km Inclination: 51.6° 1,027 orbits |
| Flight Engineer: Georgi Grechko (3rd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1) (Down - Soyuz T-13) (8 days 21 hours 13 minutes) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Research Engineer: Aleksandr Volkov (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 6) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
180 km SE of Dzhezkazgan (47° N, 70° E) |
1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Viktorenko | USSR | M | Time 64 days 21 hours 52 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Gennadi Strekalov | USSR | M | ||||
| 1st Backup Crew: Yevgeni Saley | USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 #007 |
Docked with Salyut 7 September 18, 1985 (14:15 GMT) (Aft Port) |
Undocked from Salyut 7 November 21, 1985 (07:16 GMT) (Aft Port) |
2nd Backup Crew: Anatoli Soloviyov | USSR | M | |
| 2nd Backup Crew: Aleksandr Serebrov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Nikolai Moskalenko | USSR | M | ||||
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| STS-51J | October 3, 1985 (15:15 GMT) |
October 7, 1985 (17:00 GMT) |
Commander: Karol Bobko (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 7) |
USA | M | Perigee: 591 km Apogee: 591 km Inclination: 28.5° 64 orbits |
| Pilot: Ronald Grabe (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Robert Stewart (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (1st Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
15th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 23) |
Mission Specialist 2: David Hilmers (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | Time 4 days 1 hour 44 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 1: William Pailes (1st Flight) (DOD MSE Group 2) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Michael Booen | USA | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Taxi Test 3 |
October 5, 1985 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (3rd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 270 kph | |
| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (3rd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 12 minutes |
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| Buran Analogue Taxi Test 4 |
October 15, 1985 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (4th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 300 kph | |
| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (4th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 31 minutes |
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| STS-61A | October 30, 1985 (17:00 GMT) |
November 6, 1985 (17:44 GMT) |
Commander: Henry Hartsfield (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 7) |
USA | M | Perigee: 383 km Apogee: 383 km Inclination: 57° 112 orbits |
| Pilot: Steven Nagel (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: James Buchli (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Guion Bluford (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Bonnie Dunbar (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | F | ||||
| Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) (9th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
16th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 17) |
Payload Specialist 1: Reinhard Furrer (1st Flight) (DFVLR Group 1) |
Germany | M | Time 7 days 0 hours 44 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Ernst Messerschmid (1st Flight) (DFVLR Group 1) |
Germany | M | ||||
| Payload Specialist 3: Wubbo Ockels (1st Flight) (ESA Group 1) |
Netherlands | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Ulf Merbold | Germany | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist: Claude Nicollier | Switzerland | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 1 |
November 10, 1985 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (5th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 480 kph Altitude: 1500 m |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (5th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 12 minutes |
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| Buran Analogue Taxi Test 5 |
November 15, 1985 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (6th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 170 kph | |
| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (6th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 12 minutes |
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| STS-61B | November 27, 1985 (00:29 GMT) |
December 3, 1985 (21:33 GMT) |
Commander: Brewster Shaw (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Perigee: 416 km Apogee: 416 km Inclination: 28.5° 109 orbits 2 spacewalks |
| Pilot: Bryan O'Connor (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Sherwood Spring (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Mary Cleave (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Jerry Ross (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) (2nd Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
17th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 22) |
Payload Specialist 1: Charles Walker (3rd Flight) (McDonnel Douglas) |
USA | M | Time 6 days 21 hours 4 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Rodolfo Neri-Vela (1st Flight) (Mexican Payload Specialist) |
Mexico | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 1: Robert Wood | USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 2: Ricardo Peralta-y-Fabi | Mexico | M | ||||
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