STS-41-BSpace Shuttle Challenger / OV-099 Lockheed Space Operations Company Launch Status Success Fri ยท Feb 3rd, 1984 8:00 AM EST Watch Online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogbWeHPyVO0 Crew Vance D. Brand Commander Status: Retired 5/9/1931 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Vance DeVoe Brand is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as Command Module Pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975, and as Commander of three Space Shuttle missions. His flight experience includes 9,669 flying hours, which includes 8,089 hours in jets, 391 hours in helicopters, 746 hours in spacecraft, and checkout in more than 30 types of military aircraft. Vance Brand Airport in Longmont, Colorado, is named in his honor. Robert L. Gibson Pilot Status: Retired 10/30/1946 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and a retired NASA astronaut, as well as a professional pilot who currently races regularly at the annual Reno Air Races. Bruce McCandless II Mission Specialist Status: Deceased 6/8/1937 - 12/21/2017 Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Bruce McCandless II was a U.S. naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he made the first untethered free flight by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit. Robert L. Stewart Mission Specialist Status: Retired 5/10/1942 - Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Robert Lee Stewart is a retired brigadier general of the United States Army and a former NASA astronaut. Ronald McNair Mission Specialist Status: Lost In Flight 10/21/1950 - 1/28/1986 Nationality: American Type: Government Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ronald Erwin McNair was an American physicist and NASA astronaut. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists. He is survived by his wife, Cheryl, and two children. His kids were Joy Charey Mcnair (Daughter) and Reginald Ervin Mcnair (son). Mission STS-41-B Type: Communications STS-41-B was the tenth Space Shuttle mission and the fourth of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It deployed 2 communication satellites and inluded the first untethered spacewalk. It was also the first shuttle mission to land at Kennedy Space Center. Location Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 182 launches have been at this location. Rocket Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099 Length: 38.1 meters Diameter: 8.4 meters First Launched: April 4, 1983 Space Shuttle Challenger was the second orbiter of NASA’s space shuttle program to be put into service following Columbia. Its maiden flight, STS-6, started on April 4, 1983. It launched and landed nine times before breaking apart 73 seconds into its tenth mission, STS-51-L, on January 28, 1986, resulting in the death of all seven crew members, including a civilian school teacher. It was the first of two shuttles to be destroyed in flight, the other being Columbia in 2003. The Space Shuttle Challenger OV-099 rocket has been launched a total of 10 times with 9 successful and 1 failed launches. Agency Lockheed Space Operations Company Type: Commercial Abbreviation: LSOC Administration: Founded: Launchers: Spacecraft: Country: USA View Rocket Launch Schedule