January 12 - STS-61-C: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz. * January 19 - The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread. * January 20 - The United Kingdom and France...
However, delays suffered by the previous mission, STS-61-C, caused the launch date to be pushed back to January 23 and then to January 24. Launch was then rescheduled to January 25 due to bad weather at the Transoceanic Abort Landing...
Two Space Shuttle missions— the ill-fated STS-51-L (the Challenger disaster) and STS-61-E— were scheduled to observe Comet Halley from low Earth orbit.61-E would have been flown by Challenger in March 1986, carrying the ASTRO-1...
Mission Link: http://www.patriotguard.org/tabid/61...C/Default.aspx I will need 5 to 7 experienced riders for the escort, Please let me know if you are able to help out on the 10th. Primary RC: Cheekymark Cheekymark@pgrofwa.org...