After the Challenger accident all Space Shuttle crews stopped their training for future missions. The STS-61H crew however participated in a 32-hour simulated Space Shuttle flight on October 29, 1986, marking the first long duration rehearsal since STS-51L. The mission was known as STS-61MT. The astronauts that were part of the simulation and the STS-61H/MT crew picured in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle, Michael L. Coats, John E. Blaha, Anna L. fisher, Robert C. Springer and James F. Buchli.