40 Years Ago: STS-51C, the First Dedicated Department of Defense Shuttle Mission

40 Years Ago: STS-51C, the First Dedicated Department of Defense Shuttle Mission

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On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first space shuttle mission entirely dedicated to the Department of Defense (DOD). As such, many of the details of the flight remain classified. Discovery’s crew of Commander Thomas “T.K.” Mattingly, Pilot Loren Shriver, Mission Specialists […]

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