Largest crew on a single Space Shuttle mission
- Who
- STS 61A
- What
- 8 people
- Where
- United Kingdom
- When
- 30 October 1985
The record for the largest crew on a single space mission is the crew of eight launched on space shuttle STS 61A Challenger on 30 October 1985, carrying the West German Spacelab D1 laboratory. The flight (the 22nd shuttle mission) was commanded by Henry Warren Hank Hartsfield and lasted 7 days 44 mins 51secs.