Jon Andrew McBride, born August 14, 1943, in Charleston, West Virginia, made his only spaceflight onboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-41-G), which launched October 5, 1984. This early in the space program, the mission had several milestones. One of which it was the only flight for Jon McBride and fellow astronaut Paul D. Scully-Power, the first Aussie-born astronatu and the first pilot to travel with a beard.
It was also the first mission to have two women at the same time: Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan. Kathryn would perform the first EVA by a woman. And the first Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau was aboard.
After the mission, McBride was assigned as Commander of mission STS-61-E in March 1986, but the Challenger explosion postponed many flights after that. Then he was scheulded to command mission STS-35 in March 1990, but chose to retire from NASA instead.
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