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Space Shuttle flight manifest

November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 61B (STS-31) through 81N (STS-72). By FY 1989 they hoped to get the promised 24 flights a year - 20 from KSC and 4 from Vandenberg. Ironically, Discovery which was dedicated to VAFB and would have flown only four flights a year turned out to be the fleet leader at the end of the shuttle program with 39 missions.

 

August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.

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Uploaded on December 9, 2013
Taken on December 8, 2013