yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (02/25/89)
Sarah Keegan
Jeffrey E. Carr
RELEASE: 89-24
SPACE SHUTTLE CREW MEMBERS NAMED TO DOD, LIFE SCIENCES MISSIONS
NASA has named flight crew members to two Space Shuttle
missions scheduled to fly in 1990.
USN Capt. John O. Creighton has been named to command
shuttle mission STS-36, a Department of Defense-dedicated flight
aboard Atlantis set for February 1990. USAF Col. John H. Casper
will serve as pilot. Mission specialists are USMC Lt. Col. David
C. Hilmers, USAF Col. Richard M. Mullane and USN Lt. Cmdr. Pierre
J. Thuot.
Creighton has flown as pilot on mission STS-51G. He was
born April 28, 1943, in Orange, Texas, but considers Seattle,
Wash., to be his hometown.
Casper will be making his first space flight. He was born
July 9, 1943, in Greenville, S.C.
Hilmers has flown as a mission specialist on STS- 51J and
STS-26. He was born Jan. 28, 1950, in Clinton, Iowa, but
considers DeWitt, Iowa, to be his hometown.
Mullane has flown as a mission specialist on two flights,
STS-41D and STS-27. Mullane was born Sept. 10, 1945, in Wichita
Falls, Texas, but considers Albuquerque, N.M., to be his
hometown.
Thuot, making his first flight in space, was born May 19,
1955, in Groton, Conn., but considers Fairfax, Va., to be his
hometown.
Two NASA astronauts also have been named as mission
specialists aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-
40. M. Rhea Seddon, M.D., and James P. Bagian, M.D., have been
assigned to the space life sciences-dedicated mission, SLS-1,
scheduled for launch in June 1990.
Seddon has flown on mission STS-51D as a mission
specialist. She was born Nov. 8, 1947, in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Bagian currently is preparing for his first space flight aboard
Discovery on mission STS-29 as a mission specialist. Bagian was
born Feb. 22, 1952, in Philadelphia, Penn.
SLS-1 payload specialists F. Drew Gaffney, M.D., University
of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, and Robert W. Phillips,
M.D., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, were named in
April 1985.
The SLS-1 partial crew assignment will provide for long-
range crew participation in payload training and integration.
The remainder of the flight crew will be assigned later.