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<h2 style="margin:0; background:#3B7883; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Launch of the NASA Shuttle Challenger</h2> | |||
[[Image:Challenger launch sts51l.jpg|left]] | |||
Challenger's 10th flight was to have been a six-day mission dedicated to research and education, as well as the deployment of the TDRS-B communications satellite. | |||
== Crew of the NASA Shuttle Challenger== | |||
[[Image:Sts551-crew.jpg|left]] | |||
Challenger's commander was Francis R. Scobee and the mission pilot was Michael J. Smith. Mission specialists included Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka and Ronald E. McNair. The mission also carried two payload specialists, Gregory B. Jarvis and Sharon Christa McAuliffe, who was the agency's first teacher in space. | |||
== Motto == | |||
'''T'Pen''': Let it be said that the crew of the U.S.S. CHALLENGER will meet everything with joy. | |||
Ronald Regan, President of the then United States of America gave us the motto for the Challenger: “Give me a challenge and I’ll meet it with joy”. | |||
Let it be said that the crew of the U.S.S. CHALLENGER will meet every challenge with joy. | |||
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