USS Challenger (Daedalus class)

The USS Challenger was a Daedalus-class Federation starship in Starfleet service in the late 22nd century. (The Starfleet Museum)

Challenger was eventually destroyed. (Trekmania)

In different realities, Challenger had different registry numbers.

• NCC-167 (Star Trek: Challenger Chronicles, Star Trek: Shadowstar Station)
• NCC-184 (Trekmania)
• NCC-191 (The Starfleet Museum)

Nomenclature

The starship was named after the American space shuttle Challenger that disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission, STS-51-L, on 28 January 1986. This resulted in the deaths of all seven crew members including a civilian school teacher, Christa McAuliffe.

Daedalus-class starships
USS Anson - USS Archon - UES Arcturus - USS Black Hawk - USS Carolina - USS Columbia - USS Challenger - USS Daedalus - USS Drake - USS Essex - USS Frontier - USS Horizon - USS Icarus - USS Kongo - USS Lindbergh - USS Lovell - USS Phoenix - USS Republic - USS Tiberius - USS Ulysses - USS Valiant - USS Venture - USS Voyager - USS Wakefield - USS Westphalen - SS Yorktown
Jackill's: USS Andromeda - USS Bandi - USS Barron - USS Coventry - USS Gemini - USS Kawasky - USS Larsen - USS Lorenz - USS McGraw - USS Melbourne - USS Mercury - USS Moscow - USS Sheffield - USS Wells
Orion Press: USS Ticonderoga
The Starfleet Museum: USS Apollo - USS Arronax - USS Asimov - USS Atlantis - USS Bowman - USS Buena Vista - USS Cassini - USS Clarke - USS Cochrane - USS Columbus - USS Dakota - USS Diana - USS Discovery - USS Dolphin - USS Endeavour - USS Gaines - USS Independence - USS Jefferson - USS Johnson - USS Liberty - USS Lincoln - USS Louisiana - USS Marco Polo - USS Maury - USS Mir - USS Nelson - USS Proteus - USS Robinson - USS Roosevelt - USS Shenandoah - USS Soyuz - USS Spaulding - USS Sputnik - USS Tokyo - USS Torvaldson - USS Venera - USS Viking - USS Zond
Star Trek: The Webcomic: USS Stalwart
Tales from the Neutral Zone: USS Columbia
Trekmania: USS Adelaide - USS Aegean - USS Argo - USS Argyle - USS Bacchus - USS Charybdis - USS Clarence - USS Constantinople - USS Constellation - USS Dionysus - USS Emerald - USS European - USS Gerard - USS Golden Hind - USS Intrepid - USS Kraken - USS Matriarch - USS Midway - USS Millennium - USS Minos - USS Minotaur - USS Mississippi - USS Neapolitan - USS New Delhi - USS Nova - USS Orpheus - USS Paramount - USS Patriarch - USS Pegasus - USS Prometheus - USS Remus - USS Santiago - USS Sojourner - USS Somerset - USS St. Petersburg - USS Suffolk - USS Sussex - USS Theseus - USS Urania - USS Valour - USS Warrior - USS Zephyr
The Unreliable's Light: USS Light Of Man - USS Andromeda

Starships named Challenger
Challenger (NX-03) - USS Challenger (Daedalus-class) - USS Challenger (NCC-1676) - USS Challenger (NCC-1676-A) - USS Challenger (NCC-1676-D) - USS Challenger (NCC-1863) - USS Challenger (NCC-12886) - USS Challenger (NCC-21087) - USS Challenger (NCC-36501) - USS Challenger (NCC-71099) - USS Challenger (NCC-75167) - USS Challenger (NCC-92382)