STS-61-J was a canceled launch of
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'', planned for August 1986 to launch the
Hubble Space Telescope
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.
[ ] It was canceled due to the
Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster earlier in the year.
The crew members were to be
John W. Young,
Charles F. Bolden Jr.,
Bruce McCandless II
Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was a United States Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, h ...
,
Steven A. Hawley, and
Kathryn D. Sullivan. All of the crew members except John Young, who was reassigned to an administrative position, later flew on the
STS-31 mission. Young was replaced by
Loren J. Shriver for STS-31.
Crew
References
{{All U.S. Space Shuttle Missions
Cancelled Space Shuttle missions
John Young (astronaut)