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Biography
NASA Career
Crews announced for STS-7, 8 and 9
Previously published in the JSC Space News Roundup
April 30, 1982
Astronaut crews for the
seventh and eighth flights of the Space Shuttle and the first Spacelab
mission have been announced by NASA.
Crewmembers for STS-7 are Robert
L. Crippen (Captain, U.S. Navy), commander, and Fredrick H. Hauck (Captain,
U.S. Navy), pilot. Mission specialist astronauts will be John M. Fabian
(Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force) and Dr. Sally K. Ride.
STS-7 is to be a six-day flight
of the Orbiter Challenger, with a planned launch in April 1983. Its payloads
are to be a German shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS), the second Office of
Space and Terrestrial Applications instrument package (OSTA-2), a Canadian
communications satellite (TELESAT-F) and an Indonesian communications satellite
(PALAPA-B1).
STS-8 is scheduled for launch in
July 1983. Announced as mission commander is Richard H. Truly (Captain,
U.S. Navy), and as pilot, Daniel C. Brandenstein (Commander, U.S. Navy).
Mission specialfsts will be Dale A. Gardner (Lieutenant Commander, U.S.
Navy), and Guion S. Bluford Jr., (Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force).
This three-day mission is to be
the third flight of Challenger. Payloads will be an Indian communications
satellite (INSAT 1-B) and NASA's tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS-B),
the second and final element in a system to give nearly full-time voice
and data communication between orbiting Space Shuttles and mission control.
The first flight of Spacelab - the
joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency - is presently
scheduled for launch in September 1983 aboard STS-9. Mission commander
for the seven-day flight is to be John W. Young and pilot will be Brewster
H. Shaw Jr. (Major, U.S. Air Force). Mission specialists will be Dr. Owen
K. Garriott and Dr. Robert A. Parker. Additionally, two payload specialists
- one each from NASA and the European Space Agency - will be named at a
later date.
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