Conference 7.286::space

787.0. "Four 1993 Space Shuttle Crew Assignments Announced" by PRAGMA::GRIFFIN (Dave Griffin) Mon Mar 16 1992 20:36

Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.             March 16, 1992

Barbara Schwartz
Johnson Space Center, Houston

RELEASE:  92-37

        Crew members for four 1993 Space Shuttle missions were
named today.

        Frank L. Culbertson, Jr., Capt., U.S. Navy, has been
selected to command Space Shuttle mission STS-51 scheduled for
early 1993.  Culbertson and his crew will deploy the Advanced
Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) and the German-
developed Astronomy Telescope-Shuttle Pallet Satellite
(ASTRO/SPAS).  ACTS, propelled by a Transfer Orbit Stage
booster to geosynchronous orbit, will test technology for
future communications systems.  ASTRO/SPAS will carry the
Orfeus telescope to study radiation absorbing material in the
solar system.  Other crew members are:

        William F. Readdy, Pilot
        Daniel W. Bursch, Lt. Cdr., U.S. Navy, mission specialist
        James H. Newman, Ph.D., mission specialist
        Carl E. Walz, Maj., U.S. Air Force, mission specialist

        Culbertson was the Pilot on STS-38, a Department of
Defense mission in November 1990.  He was born in Charleston,
S.C., but considers Holly Hill, S.C., his hometown.  Culbertson
received a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1971.

        Readdy was a mission specialist and orbit pilot on
STS-42 in Jan. 1992, during which 55 scientific experiments
were performed aboard the International Microgravity
Laboratory-1. Readdy was born in Quonset Point, R.I., but
considers McLean, Va., his hometown.  He received a B.S. degree
in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in
1974.

        Bursch was born in Bristol, Pa., but considers Vestal,
N.Y., his hometown.  This is his first mission.  He received a
B.S. degree in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1979 and
an M.S. degree in engineering science from the Naval
Postgraduate school in 1991.

        Newman was born in the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands but considers San Diego, Calif., his hometown.  This is
his first mission.  Newman received a B.A. degree in physics
from Dartmouth College in 1978 and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
physics from Rice University in 1982 and 1984, respectively.

        Walz, born in Cleveland, is assigned to his first
mission.  He received a B.S. degree in physics from Kent State
University in 1977 and an M.S. degree in solid state physics
from John Carroll University in 1979.

        Kenneth Cameron, Col., U.S. Marine Corps, has been
selected as commander of Space Shuttle mission STS-56, also
scheduled for early 1993.  STS-56 is the second Atmospheric
Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS) mission.
Additionally, Cameron and his crew will deploy and retrieve the
Spartan 201 satellite which will collect data to study the
physics of solar-wind acceleration.  Other crew members are:

        Stephen S. Oswald, Pilot
        Kenneth D. Cockrell, mission specialist
        Michael Foale, Ph.D., mission specialist
        Ellen Ochoa, Ph.D., mission specialist

        Cameron, Pilot on the STS-37 Compton Gamma Ray
Observatory mission in April 1991, was born in Cleveland. He
received B.S. and M.S. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics
from MIT in 1978 and 1979.

        Oswald, Pilot on the STS-42 IML-1 mission, was born in
Seattle, Wash., but considers Bellingham, Wash., his hometown.
He received a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the
U.S. Naval Academy in 1973.

        Cockrell, who was born in Austin, Texas, is assigned to
his first mission.  He received a B.S. degree in mechanical
engineering from the University of Texas in 1972 and an M.S.
degree in aeronautical systems from the University of West
Florida in 1974.

        Foale, a U.S. citizen, was born in England and
considers Cambridge his hometown.  He is scheduled to fly as a
mission specialist on the first ATLAS mission later this month.
He received a B.A. degree in physics from Queen's College in
1978 and a Ph.D. degree in laboratory astrophysics from
Cambridge University in 1982.

        Ochoa was born in Los Angeles but considers LaMesa,
Calif., her hometown.  This is her first mission.  Ochoa
received a B.S. degree in physics from San Diego State
University in 1980 and an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical
engineering from Stanford University in 1981 and 1985,
respectively.

        Ronald J. Grabe, Col., U.S. Air Force, has been
selected to command Space Shuttle mission STS-57 scheduled to
launch in mid-1993.  STS-57 will carry the commercial middeck
augmentation module called SPACEHAB and retrieve the European
Retrievable Carrier. Other crew members are:

        Brian Duffy, Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force, Pilot
        G. David Low, Payload Commander (previously named)
        Janice E. Voss, Ph.D., mission specialist (previously
        named)
        Nancy J. Sherlock, Capt., U.S. Army, mission specialist
        Peter J. K. "Jeff" Wisoff, Ph.D., mission specialist

        Grabe has flown on three Shuttle missions, as Pilot on
STS-51J in October 1985 and STS-30 in May 1989 and as Commander
on STS-42 earlier this year.  Born in New York, N.Y., he
received a B.S. degree in engineering science from the U.S. Air
Force Academy in 1966 and studied aeronautics as a Fulbright
Scholar at the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, West Germany,
in 1967.

        Duffy is scheduled to pilot the STS-45 ATLAS-01 mission
later this month.  Born in Boston, he received a B.S. degree in
mathematics from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1975 and an M.S.
degree in systems management from the University of Southern
California in 1981.

        Sherlock was born in Wilmington, Del., but considers
Troy, Ohio, her hometown.  She received a B.A. degree in
biological science from Ohio State University in 1980 and an
M.S. degree in safety engineering from the University of
Southern California in 1985.  This is her first mission.

        Wisoff, born in Norfolk, Va., received a B.S. degree in
physics from the University of Virginia in 1980 and M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in applied physics from Stanford University in
1982 and 1986, respectively.  This is his first mission.

        Story Musgrave, M.D., is named Payload Commander for
the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope Revisit mission scheduled for
late 1993.  Musgrave will be making his fifth Space Shuttle
flight.  The remainder of the crew will be assigned at a later
date.

        Musgrave, born in Boston, has six degrees, including an
M.D. degree from Columbia University in 1964 and an M.S.
degree in physiology and biophysics from the University of
Kentucky in 1966.  He was a mission specialist on STS-6 in April
1983, Spacelab-2 in August 1985, STS-33 in November 1989
and STS-44 in November 1991.