STS-61-G was a NASA Space Shuttle mission planned to launch on 20 May 1986, using Atlantis. The main objective of this mission was to launch the Galileo spacecraft toward Jupiter using the Centaur-G upper stage. It was canceled after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Crew

Position Astronaut
Commander David M. Walker
Would have been second spaceflight
Pilot Ronald J. Grabe
Would have been second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1 Norman E. Thagard
Would have been third spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2 James D. A. "OX" van Hoften
Would have been third spaceflight

Crew notes

John M. Fabian was scheduled to fly as Mission Specialist 1 on his third trip to space, but he took advice from his wife who had earlier told him that "his marriage had a two-flight limit", he soon resigned from this mission.[1] His replacement was Norman E. Thagard.[2] Most of the crew sans van Hoften flew on STS-30 in May 1989, with Mary L. Cleave taking the place of van Hoften and the addition of rookie Mark C. Lee. Galileo was launched on STS-34 in October 1989, using the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster instead of the Centaur-G (which was canceled in 1986).

See also

References

  1. ^ "John M. Fabian, Interviewed by Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, Houston, Texas – 10 February 2006". NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project - Edited Oral History Transcript. NASA. 10 February 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ "The new shuttle crews are named". Lodi News-Sentinel. 20 September 1985. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
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