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Launch: January 24, 1985
Landing: January 27, 1985 Kennedy Space Center, Fl.
Astronauts: Thomas K. Mattingly, II, Loren J. Shriver, Ellison S. Onizuka, James F. Buchli and Gary E. Payton
Space Shuttle: Discovery
This was the first mission dedicated to the Department of Defense. The U.S. Air Force Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster was deployed and met the mission objectives.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 8552137
Date: 1985
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson listens as Cadet First Class Celina Guan, second from left, talks about her classes work in the astronautics lab of the United States Air Force Academy, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, north of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
This was yet another one I couldn't resist picking up for a song (OK, a few bars of a song), even though it's not (as yet) a crew-complete item: The landing of Discovery at the conclusion of the STS-51-C mission.
Yes, it has Onizuka's autograph. But I also like the photo because 51C was a secret shuttle mission - a "black" flight - and what do we see? The black underside of the shuttle.
The photo is original to 1985, complete with purple identification writing (although it has been trimmed for an unknown reason.)
Then-Air Force Lt. Col. Gary E. Payton wrote the 'coming home!' inscription. Payton was the first Manned Spaceflght Engineer to make a flight.
Now retired from the service, Payton is the deputy under-secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs.
Then-Air Force Col. Loren J. Shriver, the pilot, made his first flight on 51C.
Shriver later flew on two other missions: STS-31R, which deployed the Hubble Space Telescope; and STS-46, the first Tethered Satellite System test flight.
Shriver later became the Deputy Director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center for Launch and Payload Processing.
Then Air-Force Lt. Col. Ellison S. Onizuka, a mission specialist, made his first flight on 51C. Onizuka was later to lose his life, as did his six crewmates, in the Challenger 51L accident a few months later.
Of the two other astronauts on 51C, then-Marine Col. James F. Buchli, another mission specialist; and then-Navy Capt. Thomas K. 'Ken' Mattingly II, the commander, Mattingly can be a difficult autograph to obtain.
(This was also Buchli's first flight. He later flew on STS-61-A, the first German spacelab; STS-29R, whose crew mostly came from the canceled after Challenger STS-61-H/Columbia mission; and STS-48, which deployed the Upper Atmosphere Research satellite.
Mattingly, in addition to flying on Apollo 13, flew on the fourth and last orbital test flight, STS-4. 51C was his last spaceflight, and he eventually rose to the rank of rear admiral.)
But I finally got Jim Lovell to sign the foreword of my "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years" book so I can hold out hope for a Mattingly signature to add to this photo. And I'll just have to look out for Buchli making an appearance.
The STS-51-C crew originally were going to fly as STS-10, but problems with the Inertial Upper Stage booster on STS-6 forced the removal of an IUS-boosted TDRS satellite from STS-8, as well as the postponement and/or cancelation of STS-10 and 12.
The STS-10 crew, with a different payload specialist other than Payton, had been slated to fly STS-41-E (also known as STS-15.)
And finally, STS-51-C was slated to fly on Challenger, but issues with that orbiter's thermal protection system resulted in Discovery being substituted.
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Foto realizada con una Nikon D100 en formato JPG sin procesar.
Picture made with Nikon D100 in JPG format without post-processing.
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NEW YORK, NY - June 14: Gary Payton, Ian Connors, Steve Kelley, Colin White, Camp Jones, Darren Lund, Jason Reid, Monique Payton and Raquel Payton at the 14th Annual Webby Awards on June 14, 2010 in New York City.
I was so glad that through the Space Foundation I was able to get the signature of ret. Air Force Col. Gary E. Payton added to my "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years" book.
Payton, in addition to being the No. 46 contributor, was one of a half-dozen or so who were signing copies of the book when it came out at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. I tried but could not secure a copy of that particular edition.
Payton was also the second Manned Spaceflight Engineer to sign my book, after Edward "Pete" Aldridge.
Payton was the first Manned Spaceflight Engineer to make a flight on the shuttle, on board STS-51-C/Discovery. MSEs were mostly Air Force payload specialists who flew on classified Department of Defense missions. There was a cadre of about 30 such astronauts, but only two flew, owing in part to the loss of Challenger. Colorado Springs, Colo., 22 June 2013.
When a chance came along to get Edward T. Lu at a presentation, I jumped at it. This was my second shot at getting Lu's signature. He had appeared at a Friday morning event at the Hayden Planetarium, but unfortunately just could not get out of bed. (I'm still kicking myself for not forcing myself, since Sochi Noguchi, a JAXA astronaut was there - also a hard autograph to get - as well as a Romanian cosmonaut.)
I was successful - well worth getting only two hours worth of sleep!
Lu flew on two shuttle missions - STS-84/Atlantis, the sixth Shuttle-Mir docking - and STS-106/Atlantis, an International Space Station assembly flight.
He had originally been scheduled for STS-101, but the postponement of the Russian Zvezda module launch led NASA to split the STS-101 mission into two flights. Lu, along with Yuri I. Malenchenko and Boris Morukov were spun off of 101 and placed in 106.
Malenchenko and Lu made up the first two-person ISS crew, Expedition 7. Originally, ISS Exp. 7 was to have been a three-person crew - among various incarnations Alexander Kaleri, who moved to Exp. 8 was to have rounded out the mission - but the loss of Columbia caused the change in the number of ISS astronauts on the station until the shuttle again became operational. (Alexander Poleshchuk was the original third member of ISS Exp. 7 as announced, then replaced by Sergei Moschenko. Apparently, Moschenko had problems with English, so he was replaced by Kaleri.)
And due to the loss of Columbia, Lu became the first American astronaut to launch and land in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
This page also shows Lu's STS-84 crewmates (along with Mario Runco), so I had him sign this page. Linthicum Heights, Md., 10 Sept. 2014.
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I worked under Charlotte Hornets team photographer Tim O'dell as an assistant photographer during the 1996-2000 NBA seasons. These were very good years for basketball. We typically used up to 8 cameras during these games. All cameras were film. Rollei 6006's were used behind the glass and floor mounted. We ofter mounted cameras in the rafters above the baskets. Four large Strobotron's were located in the four corners of the catwalks. Tim was always positioned under the basket on the Hornets bench side. I was always on the floor under the basket on the opposing team bench side. I operated 4 remote cameras and one Rollei between my legs.At the end of each game we would ship up to 30 rolls of exposed film to the NBA offices in New York.The photos here were taken by me with a Fuji Medium Format camera before the games
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Ret. Air Force Col. Gary E. Payton was a major when he flew on STS-51-C/Discovery, the first Department of Defense shuttle mission. In doing so, he became the first Manned Spaceflight Engineer, one of a group of about 30 mostly Air Force astronauts trained to fly secret DoD missions.
Payton was originally scheduled to fly, along with the rest of the 51C crew, on STS-10. But problems with the IUS rocket booster stage on STS-6 caused that flight's postponement - first to STS-15 (41E), then to 41H, and finally to 51C.
51C was originally scheduled for Challenger, but tile problems forced a substitution to Discovery.
Had Navy Cmdr. David E. Vidrine not be pulled from his tentative assignment on STS-41-C, he, not Payton, would have been the first MSE in space.
Payton made an appearance at the Space Foundation in Colorado Springs, and through their generosity, was able to get my Space Shuttle: 20 Years book signed as well as a photo. I was fortunate enough to find a high-res picture of him sufficient to get enlarged as an 8*10 (although I don't know why the border has a Lewis - now Glenn - Research Center moniker.)
Payton did the inscription unasked: "Hart - Thank you for your support of America's space program."
this is my corner reading area with books cd's cars, marilyns, sonic lamp, seabee cup, my hardhat, wine and beer glasses with goldie hawn,chris walken, dennis hopper, burroughs and the kerouac lookout station in the cascades overlooking the whole scene.
I worked under Charlotte Hornets team photographer Tim O'dell as an assistant photographer during the 1996-2000 NBA seasons. These were very good years for basketball. We typically used up to 8 cameras during these games. All cameras were film. Rollei 6006's were used behind the glass and floor mounted. We ofter mounted cameras in the rafters above the baskets. Four large Strobotron's were located in the four corners of the catwalks. Tim was always positioned under the basket on the Hornets bench side. I was always on the floor under the basket on the opposing team bench side. I operated 4 remote cameras and one Rollei between my legs.At the end of each game we would ship up to 30 rolls of exposed film to the NBA offices in New York.The photos here were taken by me with a Fuji Medium Format camera before the games