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Conference 7.286::space

Title:	Space Exploration
Notice:	Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:	PRAGMA::GRIFFIN

Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	974
Total number of notes:	18843

17.0. "Space Shuttle COLUMBIA Mission" by CASTOR::RABAHY () Thu Oct 25 1984 10:42

Associated Press Wed 24-OCT-1984 13:16                            Shuttle Crews

   [1mCrew Named for Shuttle Mission[m
   SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - The space agency has named a
five-astronaut crew for a shuttle mission scheduled for launch next
August and has changed an assignment on a previously announced crew.
   Robert L. ``Hoot'' Gibson, who piloted the shuttle Challenger
during a February flight, will command the August mission aboard
the Columbia, officials at Johnson Space Center said.
   His pilot will be Marine Lt. Col. Charles F. Bolden Jr. Mission
specialists on the flight will be Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, Steven A.
Hawley and George D. Nelson.
   The seven-day mission is to launch two communications
satellites. The shuttle will also carry a materials-processing
experiment.
   Officials also announced Air Force Col. Roy D. Bridges Jr. has
replaced S. David Griggs as pilot of an April mission. The space
agency said scheduling changes had left Griggs set to be the pilot
on missions only two months apart, which did not allow enough time
for training.

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