STS-51-DSpace Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 Lockheed Space Operations Company Launch Status Success Fri · Apr 12th, 1985 8:59 AM EST Watch Online Crew Charles D. Walker Payload Specialist Status: Retired 8/29/1948 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 8/30/1984 Last Flight: 11/27/1985 Charles David "Charlie" Walker (born August 29, 1948) is an American engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984 and 1985 as a Payload Specialist for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. He is the first non-government individual to fly in space. Karol J. Bobko Commander Status: Retired 12/23/1937 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/4/1983 Last Flight: 10/3/1985 Karol Joseph "Bo" Bobko is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former USAF and NASA astronaut. Donald E. Williams Pilot Status: Deceased 2/13/1942 - 2/23/2016 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/12/1985 Last Flight: 10/18/1989 Captain Donald Edward Williams was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. He logged a total of 287 hours and 35 minutes in space. Margaret Rhea Seddon Mission Specialist Status: Retired 11/8/1947 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/12/1985 Last Flight: 10/18/1993 Margaret Rhea Seddon is a physician and retired NASA astronaut. After being selected as part of the first group of astronauts to include women, she flew on three Space Shuttle flights: as mission specialist for STS-51-D and STS-40, and as payload commander for STS-58. Both before and after her career in the astronaut program, she has been active in the medical community in Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas. S. David Griggs Mission Specialist Status: Died While In Active Service 9/7/1939 - 6/17/1989 Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/12/1985 Last Flight: 4/12/1985 Stanley David Griggs was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D. Griggs was killed when the vintage World War II-era training aircraft he was piloting – a North American AT-6D (registration N3931S) – crashed near Earle, Arkansas. Jeffrey Hoffman Mission Specialist Status: Retired 11/2/1944 - Nationality: American Type: Government First Flight: 4/12/1985 Last Flight: 2/22/1996 Jeffrey Alan Hoffman is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected. Edwin Jacob Garn Payload Specialist Status: Retired 10/12/1932 - Nationality: American Type: Non-Astronaut Passenger First Flight: 4/12/1985 Last Flight: 4/12/1985 Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American astronaut and politician, a member of the Republican Party, who served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-51-D (April 12–19, 1985). Mission STS-51-D Type: Communications STS-51-D was the sixteenth flight of the shuttle and fourth for the Space Shuttle Discovery. Its mission was to deploy a number of 10 satellites. The landing suffered extensive brake damaged and a ruptured tire. All subsequent landings had to be done at the Edwards Air Force Base until the development and implementation of nose steering. Location Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA 185 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Rocket Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 Length: 38.1 meters Diameter: 8.4 meters First Launch: August 30, 1984 Space Shuttle Discovery is one of the orbiters from NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, gathering more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date. The Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103 rocket has been launched a total of 38 times with 38 successful and 0 failed launches. Agency Lockheed Space Operations Company Type: Commercial Abbreviation: LSOC Country: USA View Rocket Launch Schedule