Northrop Grumman's NG-21 Cygnus cargo module, named the S.S. Francis R."Dick" Scobee, is moved inside the Space Systems Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 1, 2024, as its processing continued.The commander of the ill-fated flight of space shuttle Challenger is being remembered 40 years after his first spaceflight with a commercial spacecraft bearing his name., we name our Cygnus spacecraft after a pioneer in human spaceflight.
Selected to be an astronaut in 1978 with NASA's first group of shuttle trainees, Scobee logged nearly seven days as the pilot of STS-41C, a mission that featured the first repair of a satellite inorbit. Scobee came to NASA from the U.S. Air Force, where he served as a combat aviator in the Vietnam War and a test pilot for the Boeing 747 jetliner, the X-24B lifting body and C-5 Galaxy cargo plane.
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