Cancelled Shuttle missions
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During the Space Shuttle program, a number of missions were cancelled. Mostly because of the Challenger and Columbia disasters, however some were also cancelled due to changes in payload requirements.
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[edit] STS-1
STS-1 was originally intended to be a sub-orbital test of the Space Shuttle system, using the RTLS flight profile devised for emergency abort scenarios.[1] The mission was cancelled when astronauts refused to fly it, having deemed the mission to be too dangerous.
[edit] STS-2
The mission that was originally designated STS-2 would have visited the Skylab space station, and boosted it into a higher orbit. The flight was cancelled due to delays with the Shuttle program, and Skylab re-entering sooner than was expected. The designation was later reused. The crew selected were Fred Haise and Jack Lousma. It would have launched in late 1979, using the Space Shuttle Columbia.
[edit] STS-10
STS-10 was cancelled due to delays with the payload, which was a DOD satellite. Ken Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka, James Buchli and Gary Payton had been named as the crew. Launch was scheduled for November 1983.
[edit] STS-12
STS-12, a mission to deploy a TDRS satellite, was cancelled due to problems with the Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) that was to be used in the mission. Henry Hartsfield, Michael Coats, Richard Mullane, Steven Hawley and Judith Resnik had been named as crew. Launch was scheduled for March 1984.
[edit] STS-41-E
STS-41-E, a mission to deploy a DOD satellite, was cancelled due to problems with the IUS upper stage that was to be used in the mission. Mattingly, Shriver, Onizuka, Buchli and Jeffrey Detroye had been named as crew. Launch was scheduled for March 1984. Challenger was to have flown this mission.
[edit] STS-41-F
STS-41-F was to have flown in August 1984 using Discovery. This would have been the first flight of Discovery, had the mission not been cancelled due to payload delays. STS-41-D would eventually become Discovery's first flight.
[edit] STS-62-A
STS-62-A was to have been the first shuttle mission flown from the ill-fated Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Robert Crippen would have commanded Discovery on the first polar orbit shuttle mission for the DOD. The flight was cancelled when the DOD pulled out of the shuttle program after the Challenger accident.
[edit] STS-81-M
Launch of STS-81-M was planned for July 1988 using Atlantis. It was cancelled due to the Challenger accident.
[edit] STS-71-B
Not much is known about this mission, except that it was to launch in December 1986. The mission was cancelled after the Challenger disaster. The mission would have carried Payload Specialist Charles Edward Jones, who would later die on Flight 11 when it was crashed into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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