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S85-44253 (November 1985) --- Five astronauts and two payload specialists make up the crew, scheduled to fly aboard...
S85-46260 (20 Dec. 1985) --- Members of the STS-51L crew designed this patch which will represent their...
S86-30460 (9 Jan. 1986) --- NASA's STS-51L crew members pose for photographs during a break in countdown training at...
View of the audience at the memorial service at JSC for the Crew of STS 51-L. Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud of...
51L-10166 (4 March 1986) --- Members of the Presidential Commission on the space shuttle Challenger accident arrive...
S85-37677 (8-12 July 1985) --- Sharon C. (Christa) McAuliffe of Concord High, Concord, New Hampshire, talks to nurse...
S86-25279 (November 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS-51L payload specialist, has homework of her own to do as...
S85-46693 (26 Dec. 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe (right), the Teacher-in-Space payload specialist assigned to...
S85-26106 (25 Jan. 1985) --- Astronaut Gregory Jarvis gets a familiarization session in weightlessness aboard a...
51L-10162 (8-9 March 1986) --- View of the left solid rocket booster first piece retrieval #11 (STS-51L space...
S86-38989 (28 Jan. 1986) --- Main engine exhaust, solid rocket booster plume and an expanding ball of gas from the...
S86-25293 (30 Oct. 1985) --- Barbara R. Morgan and Sharon Christa McAuliffe (right) are pictured during a visit to...
51L-10187 (18 April 1986) --- A 9'7" x 16' segment of Challenger's right wing is unloaded at the Logistics Facility...
Overall view of the audience at the memorial service at JSC for the Crew of STS 51-L.
51L-S-127 (31 Jan. 1986) --- A wide angle lens was used to capture only a portion of the crowd gathered for memorial...
S85-36966 (10 July 1985) --- Teacher Sharon Christa McAuliffe prepares to test her lung capacity during medical...
S86-25180 (October 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS-51L citizen observer/payload specialist, representing the...
S86-25199 (September 1985) --- Three members of the STS-51L prime crew and a backup crew member walk away from the...
S86-25234 (January 1986) --- STS-51L Payload Specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe egresses the rear station of a NASA...
S86-25254 (January 1986) --- Payload specialists in training for STS-51L take a break in shuttle emergency egress...
S85-37164 (8-12 July 1985) --- Sharon C. (Christa) McAuliffe of Concord High, Concord, New Hampshire, talks to the...
S86-25251 (January 1986) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, payload specialist for STS-51L, takes a breather following a...
S86-25183 (for release January 1986) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe, STS-51L payload specialist representing the...
Payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe appears to be enjoying her ride during her training in the T-38 jet...