Assigned Crew:
    Thomas Mattingly, Commander
    Loren Shriver, Pilot
    Ellison Onizuka, Mission Specialist
    James Buchli, Mission Specialist
    Gary Payton, Payload Specialist

Launch:
    Location: Kennedy
    Date: November 1983

Was to be the first DOD mission. It was cancelled due to concerns with the payload's Inertial Upper Stage. This mission did fly later as 51-C in January 1985 with the same crew.

 

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