STS-61-I (Challenger)
Planned Launch Date: 27 September 1986
Primary mission objective would have been deployment of the Intelsat-4 satellite and the retrieval of the Long Duration Exposure Facility. Smith perished in the Challenger disaster shortly after being named to this crew. Dunbar would later be assigned to STS-32, which retrieved the LDEF in 1990.
Crew:
- Donald E. Williams (Commander)
- Michael J. Smith (Pilot)
- James P. Bagian (Mission Specialist)
- Bonnie J. Dunbar (Mission Specialist)
- Manley L. Carter, Jr. (Mission Specialist)
- Nagapathi C. Bhat (Payload Specialist)
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