Gregory Jarvis

Oficiální znak (patch) mise STS-51-L se jmény sedmičlenné posádky.

Payload Specialist from Hughes Aircraft on STS-51-L, for whom it was his first and only spaceflight.

Born 24 August 1944 in Detroit, Michigan. He worked as an engineer at Hughes Aircraft, which nominated him as a payload specialist for an experiment on fluid behaviour in microgravity. His flight was repeatedly bumped in favour of other missions and scheduling changes before it finally took place on STS-51-L.

NationalityUSA

Born24 August 1944

Died28 January 1986

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SPACEFLIGHTS

STS-51-L28 January 1986

STS-51-L was the twenty-fifth mission of the Space Shuttle program. On 28 January 1986, 73 seconds after launch, the orbiter Challenger broke apart when a frost-embrittled O-ring in its right solid rocket booster failed — the entire seven-member crew died, including teacher Christa McAuliffe.open article →

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