Ride had completed eight months of training for her third flight (STS-61-M, a TDRS deployment mission) when the space shuttle Challenger disaster occurred.
莱德在完成8个月的训练后，准备参加她的第三次飞行（STS-61-M，一个TDRS部署任务），后因挑战者号航天飞机失事而中断。