Cancelled Space Shuttle missions
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During the Space Shuttle program, a number of missions were canceled. Most were cancelled as a result of the Challenger and Columbia disasters. However, some were also canceled 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 canceled 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 canceled 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. Lousma would later command the STS-3 mission in early 1982.
[edit] STS-10
STS-10 was canceled 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 canceled 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 canceled 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 canceled 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 canceled 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 canceled due to the Challenger accident.
[edit] STS-71-B
This mission was to launch in December 1986. The mission was canceled 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. The shuttle used would have been Challenger.
[edit] STS-61-L
This was a planned (and canceled) shuttle mission for deployment of commercial communications satellites. Would have launched the first American journalist in space from Launch Complex 39B. canceled after Challenger disaster. The shuttle used would have been Atlantis.
[edit] STS-61-E
This mission would've used Columbia and the object of the mission was to launch the ASTRO-1 satellite. It was canceled after the Challenger disaster.
[edit] STS-61-H
This was to be a mission planned to launch in 1986 using Columbia, however, it was cancelled after the Challenger disaster. The flight was scheduled to take place June 24 through July 1.
[edit] STS-61-M
This was to be a mission planned for July 1986 but canceled following the Space Shuttle Challlenger disaster (STS-51-L). The Space Shuttle that would be used had not Challenger exploded would have been Challenger itself. Payload was to have been one of the TDRS satellites. Crew was to have been:
[edit] STS-51-E
The shuttle was to have been Challenger and was canceled due to IUS failure. It was a planned TDRS deployment mission. The Crew:
Karol J. Bobko
Williams Donald
Margaret Rhea Seddon
Stanley David Griggs
Alan Hoffman
Pierre Baudry
Edwin Gard
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[edit] STS-144
STS-144 was a mission to retrieve the Hubble Space Telescope and return it to Earth. The mission was cancelled after the Columbia disaster. The mission was originally to have been flown by Columbia.
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