STS-6 Full Report - Challenger First Flight

[SvalbardJanMayen1976]

I'm PRETTY sure I was there, my dad was big into Shuttle launches back then, I was about 7......we lived in Miami then, that was about the ONLY time we got along as a family unit.....

[TY73Projex]

Challenger's first mission was actually STS-4.

[nick0912nascar]

@TY73Projex STS-4 was flown by Columbia

[TY73Projex]

@nick0912nascar

I stand corrected. I thought it was Challenger. But, in looking on NASA's site, it does state Columbia as STS-4 and Challenger's first mission as STS-6.

[Kingfordian22]

They didn't use pressure suits in those days.

Pressure suits were introduced after the Challenger disaster.

[chillaxer1993]

where were the pressure suits

[nickyp28]

@chillaxer1993 The pressure suits were not used between STS-5 and STS-51L as there were no ejection seats, and therefore no need for pressure suits. After STS-51L, in which all six crew members were killed, a partial pressure suit (the LES) was introduced (similar to the ejection suits used from STS-1 to STS-4). By 1998, they were using this full pressure ACES suit.