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STS-51-C was the 15th flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program and the third flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. It launched on January 24 1985 and made the fourth shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center Florida on January 27. STS-51-C was the first shuttle mission to deploy a dedicated United States Department of Defense (DoD) payload and consequently many mission details remain classified.
