Norman Thagard
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Norman Earl Thagard is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space flights and on March 14, 1995, he became the first
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STS-51-B
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STS-51-B was the 17th flight of the NASA Space Shuttle program and the seventh flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. The launch of Challenger on April 29, 1985, was delayed by 2 minutes and 18 seconds,
Norman Thagard
…on future Space Shuttle flights. A veteran of five space flights, he logged over 140 days in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-7 in 1983, STS-51-B in 1985, STS-30 in 1989, was the payload commander on STS-42 in 1992, and was the cosmonaut/researcher on the Russian Mir EO-18 mission in 1995, which…
Overmyer, Lind, Van den Berg, and Thornton in Spacelab Module LM1 during flight
Standing: Lind, Wang, Thagard, Thornton and Van den Berg Sitting: Overmyer and GregorySpace Shuttle program← STS-51-D (16)STS-51-G (18) →
Launch of STS-51-B
Overmyer using a treadmill on Challenger's middeck.