1985 International Challenger Mission Team October 28, 2010 Abbreviated Version

STS-61-A (also known as D-1) was the 22nd Space Shuttle mission. It was a scientific Spacelab mission funded and controlled by West Germany - hence the non-NASA name of D-1 (for Deutschland 1). It was also the last successful mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. STS-61-A holds the record for the largest crew, eight people, aboard any single spacecraft for the entire period from launch to landing. The Space Shuttle mission carried the NASA/ESA Spacelab module with 76 experiments, and was declared a success.[1] Payload operations were controlled from the German Space Operations Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany instead of the regular NASA centers.[2] Position Astronaut Commander Henry W. Hartsfield Third spaceflight Pilot Steven R. Nagel Second spaceflight Mission Specialist 1 Bonnie J. Dunbar First spaceflight Mission Specialist 2 James F. Buchli Second spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Guion S. Bluford Second spaceflight Payload Specialist 1 Reinhard Furrer, DLR Only spaceflight Payload Specialist 2 Ernst Messerschmid, DLR Only spaceflight Payload Specialist 3 Wubbo Ockels, ESA Only spaceflight Backup crew Position Astronaut Payload Specialist 3 Ulf Merbold, ESA Music "Take on Me" by Aha 1985



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