NASA Mission Patch - STS 51L (McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee, Smith, McAuliffe, Jarvis)

Object/Artifact

Wabash County Museum

Name/Title

NASA Mission Patch - STS 51L (McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee, Smith, McAuliffe, Jarvis)

Entry/Object ID

2024.039.11

Description

NASA Mission Patch - STS 51L (McNair, Onizuka, Resnik, Scobee, Smith, McAuliffe, Jarvis). 25th Space Shuttle Mission, 10th Flight of Challenger Crew: Francis R. Scobee, Commander; Michael J. Smith, Pilot; Judith A. Resnik, Mission Specialist; Ellison S. Onizuka, Mission Specialist; Ronald E. McNair, Mission Specialist; Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space; Gregory B. Jarvis, Payload Specialist. The mission featured America's "Teacher in Space" Sharon Christa McAuliffe. McAuliffe was scheduled to teach lessons from space which would be distributed live via satellite to schools throughout the world. The primary payload was the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-2 (TDRS-2), originally scheduled to fly aboard canceled mission STS-51E. An explosion 73 seconds after launch resulted in the loss of Challenger and crew.