Crew members of the STS-51L mission are seated for breakfast launch morning in the Operations and Checkout Building prior to liftoff of the space shuttle Challenger scheduled for 9:38 a.m. The launch was scheduled for Jan. 27, 1986, but was delayed 24 hours due to unacceptable cross winds. Crew members left to right are Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist; Sharon Christa McAuliffe, payload specialist; Michael J. Smith, pilot; Francis R. Scobee, commander; Judith A. Resnik and Ronald E. McNair, mission specialists; and Gregory D. Jarvis, payload specialist.
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Crew members of the STS-51L mission are seated for breakfast launch morning in the Operations and Checkout Building prior to liftoff of the space shuttle Challenger scheduled for 9:38 a.m. The launch was scheduled for Jan. 27, 1986, but was delayed 24 hours due to unacceptable cross winds. Crew members left to right are Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist; Sharon Christa McAuliffe, payload specialist; Michael J. Smith, pilot; Francis R. Scobee, commander; Judith A. Resnik and Ronald E. McNair, mission specialists; and Gregory D. Jarvis, payload specialist.