Space Launch NowSuccess· Flight 1
STS-51-D
- Launched
- Apr 12, 1985 · 13:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- From
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Destination
- Low Earth Orbit
- Landed
- Apr 19, 1985
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Stanley David Griggs was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of...
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STS-51-D EVA (Placeholder)
Apr 16, 1985
Success· Flight 1
Stanley David Griggs was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D. Griggs was killed when the vintage World War II-era training aircraft he was piloting – a North American AT-6D (registration N3931S) – crashed near Earle, Arkansas.
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