* 1985 – Clarke MacArthur, Canadian hockey player

* 1985 – Al Mukadam, Canadian director, producer, screenwriter and actor

* 1985 – Frank Ongfiang, Italian footballer

* 1985 – James Alexandrou, English actor

* 1985 – Brennan Boesch, American baseball player

* 1985 – Jeísa Chiminazzo, Brazilian model

* 1985 – Ted Ginn, Jr., American football player

* 1985 – Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress

* 1985 – Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter ( Serebro )

* 1985 – Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer ( Morning Musume and Hangry & Angry )

* 1901 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American call girl, columnist, and singer

* 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.

* 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Nikica Jelavić, Croatian footballer

* 1985 – Alexandra Nechita, Romanian-American painter

* 1985 – Mickaël Delage, French cyclist

* 1985 – Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer

* 1985 – Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1985 – Luca Filippi, Italian race car driver

* 1985 – Anna Kendrick, American actress

* 1985 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer

* 1985 – JaMarcus Russell, American football player

It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August.

STS-51-F's first launch attempt on 12 July 1985 was halted with the countdown at T-3 seconds after main engine ignition, when a malfunction of the number two Space Shuttle Main Engine ( SSME ) coolant valve caused the shutdown of all three main engines.

The orbiter arrived back at Kennedy Space Center on 11 August 1985.

* 1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.

In 1985, Sega's third-person arcade rail shooter game Space Harrier introduced a true analog flight stick, used for movement.

* Morons from Outer Space ( 1985 )-Bernard ; also co-wrote the script with Griff Rhys Jones

* 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.

* 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.

Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens ' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Atlantis was the fourth operational ( and the next-to-the-last ) Space Shuttle to be constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California, and it was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida in April 1985.

Space Battleship Yamato was a 1985 Japanese exclusive Laserdisc video game designed by Taito which was based on the television series of the same name.

The High Precision Tracking Experiment ( HPTE ), launched with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-G, was tested June 21, 1985 when a Hawaii-based low-power laser successfully tracked the experiment and bounced the laser off of the HPTE mirror.

* Space Shuttle Enterprise ( OV-101 ), the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, used for test flights in earth atmosphere, landing procedures, and ground tests between 1975 and 1985.

Other early puzzle games included puzzle-platformers such as Enix's Door Door ( 1983 ), Sega's Doki Doki Penguin Land ( 1985 ), and the earlier Space Panic ( 1980 ).

The first, and so far only, planetary balloon mission was performed by the Space Research Institute of Soviet Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the French space agency CNES in 1985.

The Aurora legend started in March 1990, when Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term " Aurora " had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U. S. budget, as an allocation of $ 455 million for " black aircraft production " in FY 1987.

In 1985 a further reorganization created the Space Systems Division from the Convair Space division.

* Look Out for Space ( 1985 )-Novel

Anime created by Sunrise that have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize are Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979 and the first half of 1980, Space Runaway Ideon in the second half of 1980, Crusher Joe ( co-production ) in 1983, Dirty Pair in 1985, Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, Gundam SEED in 2002, Gundam SEED Destiny in 2004 and 2005, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion in 2006 and 2007 and Code Geass R2 in 2008.

Selected by NASA in May 1984, Dr. Carter became an astronaut in June 1985, qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.

A 1985 presentation to the National Space Society stated that although flying tourists in the cabin would cost $ 1 to 1. 5 million per passenger without government subsidy, within 15 years 30, 000 people a year would pay $ 25, 000 each to fly in space on new spacecraft.