Space Shuttle STS-61A launch 30.10.1985 Henry Hartsfeld (USA)
(Flight 22, Challenger, D1) landing 06.11.1985 Steven Nagel (USA)
James Buchli (USA)
Guion Bluford (USA)
Bonnie Dunbar (USA)
Reinhard Furrer (Germany)
Ernst Messerschmidt (Germany)
Wubbo Ockels (Netherlands)
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First flight with 8 astronauts and 3 astronauts who have not been not US astronauts, 2 of them have been germans.
D1 Mission , that means that was the first Space Shuttle
mission where the responsability for the scientific part was under german control
112 Orbits
Space Shuttle STS-61B launch 27.11.1985 Brewster Shaw (USA)
(Flight 23, Atlantis) landing 03.12.1985 Brian O`Conner (USA)
Mary Cleave (USA)
Sherwood Spring (USA)
Jerry Ross (USA)
Rudolfo Neri Vela (Mexico)
Charles Walker (USA)
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109 Orbits
Space Shuttle STS-61C launch 12.01.1986 Robert Gibson (USA)
(Flight 24, Columbia) landing 18.01.1986 Charles Bolden (USA)
George Nelson (USA)
Steven Hawley (USA)
Franklin Chang-Diaz (USA)
Robert Cenker (USA)
Bill Nelson (USA)
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98 Orbits