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(for the article Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)

Background

Planned mission

The mission of this flight was named STS-51-L. It was the tenth mission for Challenger. STS-51-L was scheduled to deploy the second in a series of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, carry out the first flight of the "Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy" (SPARTAN-203) / Halley's Comet Experiment Deployable in order to observe Halley's Comet, and carry out several lessons from space as part of the Teacher in Space Project and Shuttle Student Involvement Program (SSIP). One of the crew members of this mission, Gregory Jarvis, was originally scheduled to fly on the previous shuttle flight (STS-61-C). However, he was reassigned to this flight and replaced by Congressman Bill Nelson.

Crew

The crew had seven members and two backup members.

Position	Astronaut
Commander	Francis R. Scobee Would have been second spaceflight
Pilot	Michael J. Smith Would have been first spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1	Ellison S. Onizuka Would have been second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2	Judith A. Resnik Would have been second spaceflight
Mission Specialist 3	Ronald E. McNair Would have been second spaceflight
Payload Specialist 1	Gregory B. Jarvis Would have been first spaceflight Hughes Space and Communications
Payload Specialist 2	S. Christa McAuliffe Would have been first spaceflight Teacher in Space

Position	Astronaut
Payload Specialist 1	L. William Butterworth Would have been first spaceflight Hughes Space and Communications
Payload Specialist 2	Barbara R. Morgan Would have been first spaceflight Teacher in Space
Morgan would be selected as a NASA astronaut in 1998 and flew on STS-118 in 2007 as a mission specialist.