[net.columbia] STS-9 Crew Announced

sjb (09/21/82)

The crew for the seven-day flight of STS-9, now scheduled to launch
on 30 September, 1983, was announced today by NASA.  The commander
will be John Young, making his second shuttle flight; pilot will
be Brewster Shaw; mission specialists will be Owen Garriott and
Robert Parker.  Also among the crew will be an American scientist
Byron K. Lichtenberg and West German scientist Ulf Merbold; they
will operate Space Lab 1, also due to fly with STS-9.  It will be
the first time that a foreigner has flown on an American spacecraft.