STS-51 L Crew

The Space Shuttle Challenger was launched on January 28, 1986, and was lost in an accident when the right-hand solid rocket booster failed 73 seconds into flight. The crew of Commander Dick Scobee, Pilot Mike Smith, Mission Specialists Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka , Judy Resnick and Payload Specialists Ron Jarvis and Teacher Christa McAuliffe lost their lives in pursuit of Halley's Comet, the mission’s primary goal after launching a TDRS Satellite.

Christa McAuliffe

Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire. McAuliffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and received her bachelor's degree in education and history from Framingham State College in 1970, and a Master of Arts from Bowie State University in 1978. She took a teaching post as a social studies teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire in 1982.

In 1985, McAuliffe was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project, and she was scheduled to become the first teacher in space. As a member of mission STS-51-L, she was planning to conduct experiments and teach two lessons from Space Shuttle Challenger. On January 28, 1986, her spacecraft disintegrated 73 seconds after launch, and she was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. After her death, schools and scholarships were named in her honor, and in 2004 she was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

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Wendy B. Lawrence

Wendy Barrien Lawrence is a Captain in the U.S. Navy, a helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female graduate of the US Naval Academy to fly in space and she has also visited the Russian Space Station Mir. She was a mission specialist on STS-114, the first Shuttle flight after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.

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Owen K. Garriott (Ph.D.)

Owen Garriott (Ph.D.) NASA Astronaut. Born November 22, 1930 in Enid, Oklahoma. Graducated from Enid High School in 1948; received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 1953 and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Electrial Engineering in 1957 and 1960, respectively. Completed one year U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Program (1966), receiving qualification as pilot in jet aircraft.

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Garriott is a next-generation explorer in a very literal sense. His father is astronaut Owen Garriott, who lived on the Skylab space station for almost two months in 1973 and flew aboard the space shuttle for the first Spacelab mission in 1983.

Not only did Richard become the first child of a u.S. astronaut to travel into space, his flight will have additioanl significance. He will be returning to Earth with cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, who has served as the commander of the International Space Station since April 2008 and is the first child of a Russian cosmonaut to make a spaceflight.

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Barbara Morgan

Barbara was the back-up Space Flight Participant to Christa McAuliffe and was a grade school teacher from McCall, Idaho. Twenty-one years after the Challenger accident, Barbara fulfilled the dream of a teacher in space as a full time educator astronaut flying on STS-118 on space shuttle Endeavour, while helping to build the International Space Station.

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Clay Anderson

A Native of Ashland, Nebraska, who made his first space flight, a long duration mission, onboard the International Space Station. He performed 3 space walks with the STS-118 crew and is going back to space in 2010 on STS-131 as a mission specialist.

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Loren Acton

Flew one mission as a Payload Specialist onboard Space Shuttle Challenger's STS-51F mission, a Spacelab 2 astronomy mission. Loren is originally from Lewiston, Montana, and went from riding a horse to school to riding the space shuttle into space. He has travelled to Gillette twice to tell youngsters about his missions.

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Of the 312 pilots and scientists selected as astronauts since 1959, at least 207 have been identified as having been Scouts or active in Scouting. The list includes 39 Eagle Scouts, 25 Life Scouts, 14 Star Scouts, 26 First Class Scouts, 17 Second Class Scouts, 13 Tinderfoot Scouts, 3 Explorers, 25 Cub Scouts, 10 Webelos Scouts, 1 King's Scout, 2 Wolf Scouts, and 32 with unknown ranks, including 27 who were Girl Scouts.

Of the 27 men to travel to the moon on the Apollo 9 through Apollo 17 missions, 24 were scouts, including 11 of the 12 men who physically walked on the moon's surface, and all three members of the crew of Apollo 13.

All three of the astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire, four of the seven who died in the Challenger launch explosion, and five of the seven who died in the Columbia re-entry explosion were Scouts.

• ADAMSON, James C.**
• ARMSTRONG, Neil A.**
• BAGIAN, James P.**
• BLUFORD, Guion S. Jr.**
• BOWERSOX, Kenneth D.
• BRADY, Charles E.**
• CARR, Gerald P.**
• CARTER, Manley Lanier "Sonny" Jr.*
• CHAFFEE, Roger B.*
• CHAMITOFF, Gregory Errol
• COVEY, Richard O.**
• CREIGHTON, John O.**
• DUKE, Charles M., Jr.**
• EISELE, Donn F.*
• FORRESTER, Patrick G.
• FOSSUM, Michael E.
• FULLERTON, Charles G.**
• GREGORY, WIlliam G.**
• GRIGGS, S. David*
• HOFFMAN, Jeffery A.**
• JOHNSON, Gregory H.
• JONES, Thomas D.**
• LEE, Mark C.**
• LIND, Don L.**
• LINDSEY, Steven W.
• LOVELL, James A. Jr.**
• McCOOL, William C.*
• McCULLEY, Michael J.**
• O'LEARY, Brian T.**
• ONIZUKA, Ellison S.*
• OSWALD, Stephen S.**
• PARAZYNSKI, Scott E.
• PETTIT, Donald R.
• REIGHTLER, Kenneth S. Jr.**
• SEARFOSS, Richard A.**
• SEE, Elliot M. Jr.*
• TANNER, Joseph R.
• TRULY, Richard H.**
• WALKER, David M.*

• LLEWELLYN, John A.**

• ANDERS, William A.**
• BAKER, Michael A.
• BASSETT, Charles A.
• BRAND, Vance D.
• BRIDGES, Roy D. Jr.
• BROWN, David M.
• CASPER, John H.**
• COOPER, L. Gordon Jr.*
• EVANS, Ronald E.*
• FABIAN, John M.**
• GARDNER, Guy S.**
• GIVENS, Edward G. Jr.*
• GREGORY, Frederick D.**
• KREGEL, Kevin R.**
• LOW, G. David**
• MATTINGLY, Thomas K. II**
• McARTHUR, William S. Jr.
• MITCHELL, Edgar D.**
• POINDEXTER, Alan G.
• ROBINSON, Stephen K
• SCOTT, David R.**
• SPRING, Sherwood C.**
• SPRINGER, Robert C.**
• VAN HOFTEN, James, D. A.**
• WILLIAMS, Clifton C. Jr.*

• BARRY, Daniel T.
• CAMERON, Kenneth D.**
• ENGLAND, Anthony W.**
• FISHER, William F.**
• GARRIOTT, Owen K.**
• GIBSON, Robert L.**
• GORDON, Richard F. Jr.**
• GRISSOM, Virgil I.* (Gus)
• HAISE, Fred W. Jr.**
• LOUNGE, John M. "Mike"**
• McNAIR, Ronald E.*
• NOGUCHI, Soichi
• STAFFORD, Thomas P.**
• WILLIAMS, Jeffrey N.

• ALLEN, Joseph P.**
• ANDERSON, Clayton C.
• BEAN, Alan L.**
• BLOOMFIELD, Michael J.
• CAMARDA, Charles J.
• CLIFFORD, Michael R.**
• COATS, Michael L.**
• EDWARDS, Joe F. Jr.**
• ENGLE, Joe H.**
• FOREMAN, Michael J.
• FREEMAN, Theodore C.*
• GARDNER, Dale A. **
• GIBSON, Edward G.**
• HAMMOND, L. Blaine Jr.**
• HENIZE, Karl G.*
• LINNEHAN, Richard M.
• NELSON, George D.**
• OEFELEIN, William A.
• OVERMYER, Robert F.*
• REILLY, James F.
• SCHIRRA, Walter M. Jr.**
• SCHWEICKART, Russel L.**
• SCOTT, Winston E.**
• SHEPARD, Alan B. Jr.*
• VEACH, Charles Lacy*
• WORDEN, Alfred M.**

• ALTMAN, Scott D.
• BOLDEN, Charles F. Jr.**
• BUCHLI, James F.**
• CARPENTER, M. Scott**
• CERNAN, Eugene A.**
• CULBERTSON, Frank L. Jr.**
• HERRINGTON, John B.**
• HUSBAND, Rick D.*
• MULLANE, Richard M.**
• PARKER, Robert A. R.**
• POGUE, William R.**
• SHRIVER, Loren J.**
• SWIGERT, John L. Jr.*
• THORNTON, William E.**
• WHITE, Edward H. II*
• WOODWARD, Neil W. III
• YOUNG,John W.**

• ALDRIN, Buzz**
• BURSCH, Daniel W.
• FRICK, Stephen N.
• GARAN, Ronald J. Jr.
• HAWLEY, Steven A.
• KOPRA, Timothy L.
• LOUSMA, Jack R.**
• LOVE, Stanley G.
• McDIVITT, James A.**
• Michael, F. Curtis**
• RICHARDS, Paul W.**
• SCHMITT, Harrison H.**
• SMITH, Steven L.

• BARRATT, Michael R
• O'CONNOR, Bryan D.**
• WILLIAMS, Donald E.**

• CAGLE, Yvonne D.
• CLARK, Laurel B.*
• COLLINS, Eileen M.
• CURRIE, Nancy J.**
• DAVIS, N. Jan**
• FISHER, Anna L.
• HELMS, Susan J.
• HIGGINBOTHAM, Joan E.
• HIRE, Kathryn P.
• HUGHES FULFORD, Millie**
• JEMISON, Mae
• JERNIGAN, Tamara E.**
• KILRAIN, Susan L.**
• LAWRENCE, Wendy B.
• MAGNUS, Sandra H.
• MCARTHER, K. Megan
• McCAULLIFFE, Christa*
• METCALF-LINDENBURGER, Dorothy M.
• MORGAN, Barbara R.
• NOWAK, Lisa M.
• RESNICK, Judith A.*
• SEDDON, Margaret Rhea**
• STEFANYSHYN-PIPER, Heidemarie M.
• SULLIVAN, Kathryn D.**
• THORNTON, Kathryn C.**
• VOSS, Janice E.
• WEBER, Mary Ellen**

• ANDERSON, Michael P.*
• DREW, Alvin B.
• FINCKE, Edward Michael
• FORD, Kevin A.
• GORIE, Dominic L
• KELLY, James M.
• LORIA, Christopher J.
• MASSIMINO, Michael J.
• NORIEGA, Carlos I.
• OLIVAS, John D.

• ALLEN, Andrew M.**
• BROWN, Curtis L. Jr.**
• BURBANK, Daniel C.
• CAREY, Duane G.**
• CONRAD, Charles Jr.*
• DUFFY, Brian**
• GERNHARDT, Michael L.
• HADFIELD, Chris A.
• HENRICKS, TErence T.**
• HOBAUGH, Charles O.
• KELLY, Mark E.
• KELLY, Scott J.
• LEESTMA, David C.**
• LOPEZ-ALEGRIA, Michael E.
• McBRIDE, Jon A.**
• MEADE, Carl J.**
• MUSGRAVE, Story**
• PHILLIPS, John L.
• READDY, William F.**
• ROMINGER, Kent
• SHEPHERD, William M.**
• THOMAS, Donald A.
• THUOT, Pierre J.**
• WILLIAMS, Dafydd(David) Rhys
• WOLF, David A.

• FOALE, Michael C.
• SELLERS, Piers J.

• BULL, John S.**
• HARRIS, Bernard A. Jr.**
• MORIN,Lee M.
• POLANSKY, Mark L.
• VOSS, James S.**

* Deceased
** Retired

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