yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (12/01/88)
Sarah Keegan November 30, 1988
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 1:30 p.m. EST
Jeffrey Carr
Johnson Space Center, Houston
RELEASE: 88-162
FOUR SPACE SHUTTLE CREWS NAMED
Astronaut flight crews have been named to four Space Shuttle
missions which are scheduled to fly in late 1989 and early 1990,
bringing the total number of crews in training to nine.
Col. Frederick D. Gregory (USAF) will command STS-33, a
Department of Defense mission aboard Discovery set for Aug. 10,
1989. Gregory's crew members will consist of pilot S. David
Griggs and mission specialists F. Story Musgrave, M.D., Kathryn
C. Thornton, Ph.D. and Capt. Manley L. "Sonny" Carter, Jr., M.D.
(USN).
The Space Shuttle Atlantis will fly under the command of
Capt. Donald E. Williams (USN on Oct. 12, 1989, on mission STS-
34. Williams and crew will deploy the planetary probe Galileo,
sending it on its way to Jupiter. The pilot for the mission is
Cmdr. Michael J. McCulley (USN). Shannon W. Lucid, Ph.D., Ellen
S. Baker, M.D. and Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, Ph.D., have been named
as mission specialists.
Capt. Daniel C. Brandenstein (USN) will command the STS-32
crew aboard Columbia. The mission, scheduled for Nov. 13, 1989,
will feature deployment of the Syncom IV-5 satellite and
retrieval of the Long Duration Exposure Facility. Lt. Cmdr.
James D. Wetherbee (USN) will serve as pilot. Bonnie J. Dunbar,
Ph.D., G. David Low and Marsha S. Ivins have been named as
mission specialists.
Shuttle mission STS-35 will feature the ASTRO-1 astronomy
laboratory and is scheduled to fly March 1, 1990. Commanding the
mission aboard Columbia is Capt. Jon A. McBride (USN). Col. Guy
S. Gardner (USAF) has been named as pilot. Mission specialists
are John M. "Mike" Lounge, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Ph.D., and
Robert A.R. Parker, Ph.D.
Payload specialists named to the ASTRO-1 mission are Ronald
A. Parise, Ph.D. and Samuel T. Durrance, Ph.D. Durrance and
Parise were assigned previously to fly with ASTRO-1 in March 1986
on mission STS 61-E.
STS-32
Brandenstein, currently chief of the astronaut office, has flown
twice before on missions STS-8 as pilot and STS 51-G as
commander. Brandenstein was born Jan. 17, 1943, in Watertown,
Wisc.
Wetherbee, making his first space flight, was born Nov. 27, 1952,
in Flushing, N.Y.
Dunbar will make her second flight as a mission specialist. Her
first was on STS 61-A in October 1985. She was born March 3,
1949, in Sunnyside, Wash.
Low, born Feb. 19, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, also will make his
first flight in space.
Ivins, also making her first flight, was born April 15, 1951, in
Baltimore, Md.
STS-33
Gregory flew previously as pilot on mission STS 51-B in May
1985. He was born Jan. 7, 1941, in Washington, D.C.
Griggs flew as a mission specialist on STS 51-D in April 1985.
He was born Sept. 7, 1939, in Portland, Ore.
Carter, born Aug. 15, 1947, in Macon, Ga., will make his first
space flight. Carter considers Warner Robbins, Ga., his
hometown.
Musgrave has flown twice before as a mission specialist on STS-6
in April 1983 and again on STS 51-F in July 1985. He was born
Aug. 19, 1935, in Boston, Mass., but considers Lexington, Ky.,
his hometown.
Thornton was born August 17, 1952, in Montgomery, Ala. She will
be making her first flight in space.
STS-34
Williams was pilot on STS 51-D, the fourth flight of Discovery,
in April 1985. He was born Feb. 13, 1942, in Lafayette, Ind.
McCulley will be making his first Space Shuttle flight. He was
born Aug. 4, 1943, in San Diego, Calif., but considers
Livingston, Tenn., his hometown.
Baker, born April 27, 1953, in Fayetteville, N.C., will be making
her first Shuttle flight.
Chang-Diaz, a mission specialist on STS 61-C in January 1986
aboard Columbia, was born April 6, 1950, in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Lucid flew as a mission specialist on the fifth flight of
Discovery, STS 51-G, in June 1985. She was born in Shanghai,
China, on Jan. 14, 1943, and considers Bethany, Okla., her
hometown.
STS-35
McBride previously flew as the pilot of STS 41-G aboard
Challenger in October 1984. He was born Aug. 14, 1943, in
Charleston, W.V., but considers Beckley, W.V., his hometown.
Gardner, assigned to the STS-27 mission aboard Atlantis, will be
making his second flight. He was born Jan. 6, 1948, in
Altavista, Va., but considers Alexandria, Va., his hometown.
Hoffman, making his second Shuttle flight, previously served as a
mission specialist on STS 51-D aboard Discovery in April 1985.
He was born Nov. 2, 1944, in Brooklyn, N.Y., but considers
Scarsdale, N.Y., his hometown.
Lounge will be making his third spaceflight as a mission
specialist. He previously flew on Orbiter Discovery missions
STS 51-I launched in August 1985, and STS-26 launched in
September 1988. Lounge was born June 28, 1946, in Denver, Colo.,
but considers Burlington, Colo., his hometown.
Parker, making his second Shuttle flight, served as a mission
specialist on STS-9, the first Spacelab mission, launched in
November 1983. He was born in New York City on Dec. 14, 1936,
but grew up in Shrewsbury, Mass.
Durrance will be making his first Space Shuttle flight. He was
born Sept. 17, 1943, in Tallahassee, Fla.
Parise also will be making his first Shuttle flight. He was born
in Warren, Ohio, on May 24, 1951.