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- Subject: January 13 set for the first space shuttle flight of 1993 [NTE 92-110] (Forwarded)
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:24:22 GMT
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- Ed Campion
- Headquarters, Washington, D.C. December 22, 1992
- (Phone: 202/453-8536)
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- George Diller
- Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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- EDITORS NOTE: N92-110
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- JANUARY 13 SET FOR THE FIRST SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT OF 1993
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- NASA managers today set Jan. 13 as the launch date for the first
- Shuttle mission of 1993. Designated STS-54, the flight has two primary
- objectives -- deployment of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-F)
- and astronomical observations of invisible x-ray sources within the Milky Way
- Galaxy with the Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer. A space walk (EVA) to evaluate
- training methods and gain additional EVA experience also will occur during
- the mission.
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- The launch window opens at 8:52 a.m. EST and extends for 2 1/2
- hours. The mission duration is planned for 6 days. Landing is scheduled for
- Jan. 19 at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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- Commanding the STS-54 mission will be John Casper, making his
- second flight. Don McMonagle, also making his second flight, will be the
- Pilot. The three mission specialists for STS-54 are Mario Runco, making his
- second flight; Greg Harbaugh, making his second flight, and Susan Helms,
- making her first flight.
-