death_date death_place status birth_place mission nationality birth_date insignia rank image article_title name type occupation
28 january 1986 cape canaveral , florida killed during mission detroit , michigan sts-51-l american 24 august 1944 30px captain , usaf gregory jarvis -lrb- nasa -rrb- cropped.jpg gregory jarvis
 gregory jarvis hughes aircraft payload specialist engineer
gregory jarvis

gregory bruce jarvis -lrb- august 24 , 1944 -- january 28 , 1986 -rrb- was an american engineer who died during the destruction of the space shuttle `` challenger '' on mission sts-51-l , where he was serving as payload specialist .
