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Space shuttle program The Eighties in America

Space Shuttle Missions in the 1980’s

Mission Name Dates Astronauts

STS-1Columbia April 12-14, 1981 John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen, Jr.

STS-2Columbia November 12-14, 1981 Joseph H. Engle and Richard H. Truly

STS-3Columbia March 22-30, 1982 Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton

STS-4Columbia June 27-July 4, 1982 Thomas K. Mattingly II and Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr.

STS-5Columbia November 11-16, 1982 Vance D. Brand, Robert F. Overmyer, Joseph P. Allen,

and William B. Lenoir

STS-6Challenger April 4-9, 1983 Paul J. Weitz, Karol J. Bobko, Donald H. Peterson, and

F. Story Musgrave

STS-7Challenger June 18-24, 1983 Robert L. Crippen, Jr., Frederick H. Hauck, John M.

Fabian, Sally Ride, and Norman E. Thagard.

STS-8Challenger August 30-September 5,

1983

Richard H. Truly, Daniel C. Brandenstein, Dale A.

Gardner, Guion S. Bluford, Jr., and William E.

Thornton

STS-9Columbia November 28-December 8,

1983

John W. Young, Brewster H. Shaw, Owen K. Garriott,

Robert A. Parker, Byron K. Lichtenberg, and Ulf

Merbold

STS 41-BChallenger February 3-11, 1984 Vance D. Brand, Robert L. Gibson, Bruce McCandless

II, Ronald E. McNair, and Robert L. Stewart

STS 41-CChallenger April 6-13, 1984 Robert L. Crippen, Jr., Francis R. Scobee, George D.

Nelson, James D. A. von Hoften, and Terry J. Hart

STS 41-DDiscovery August 30-September 5,

1984

Henry W. Hartsfield Jr., Michael L. Coats, Judith A.

Resnik, Steven A. Hawley, Richard M. Mullane, and

Charles D. Walker

STS 41-GChallenger October 5-13, 1984 Robert L. Crippen, Jr., Jon A. McBride, Kathryn D.

Sullivan, Sally Ride, David C. Leestma, Marc

Garneau, and Paul D. Scully-Power

STS 51-ADiscovery November 8-16, 1984 Frederick H. Hauck, David M. Walker, Anna L. Fisher,

Dale A. Gardner, and Joseph P. Allen

STS 51-CDiscovery January 24-27, 1985 Thomas K. Mattingly II, Loren J. Shriver, Ellison S.

Onizuka, James F. Buchli, and Gary E. Payton

STS 51-DDiscovery April 12-19, 1985 Karol J. Bobko, Donald E. Williams, M. Rhea Seddon,

Jeffrey A. Hoffman, S. David Griggs, Charles D.

Walker, and Sen. E. Jake Garn

STS 51-BChallenger April 29-May 6, 1985 Robert F. Overmyer, Frederick D. Gregory, Don L.

Lind, Norman E. Thagard, William E. Thornton,

Lodewijk van den Berg, and Taylor G. Wang

STS 51-GDiscovery June 17-14, 1985 Daniel C. Brandenstein, John O. Creighton, Shannon

W. Lucid, John M. Fabian, Steven R. Nagel, Patrick

Baudry, and Sultan Salman Al-Saud

STS 51-FChallenger July 29-August 6, 1985 C. Gordon Fullerton, Roy D. Bridges, Jr., F. Story

Musgrave, Anthony W. England, Karl G. Henize,

Loren W. Acton, and John-David F. Bartoe

STS 51-IDiscovery August 27-September 3,

1985

Joseph H. Engle, Richard O. Covey, James D. A. van

Hoften, John M. Lounge, and William F. Fisher