limey@fluke.UUCP (Paul Baldock) (10/18/85)
Does anybody out there in net-land know when the next Shuttle (with the
German hams on board) blasts off.
Paul
rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) (10/21/85)
> Does anybody out there in net-land know when the next Shuttle (with the > German hams on board) blasts off. > Paul Shuttle mission 61-A is scheduled to lift off on October 30 for its week-long Spacelab D-1 mission. This Spacelab will concentrate on materials processing. The crew will be mission commander Henry Hartsfield, pilot Steven Nagel, mission specialists Guion Bluford, James Buchli, and Bonnie Dunbar, and payload specialists Reinhard Furrer, Ernst Messerschmid, and Wubbo Ockels. This will be the first shuttle mission with a crew of eight. It will be the ninth mission for the orbiter Challenger and the 22nd shuttle mission. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe