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Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
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Space Shuttle Challenger
Space Shuttle orbiter (1983–1986)
Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the commanding ship of a nineteenth-century scientific expedition that traveled the world, Challenger was the second Space Shuttle orbiter to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
STS-61-A
1985 American crewed spaceflight funded and directed by West Germany
STS-61-A was the 22nd mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. It was a scientific Spacelab mission, funded and directed by West Germany – hence the non-NASA designation of D-1. STS-61-A was the ninth and last successful flight of Space Shuttle Challenger before the STS-51-L…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)