Apr 25 2003
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe named the commander, the pilot, and a mission specialist of the next Space Shuttle mission, even though NASA had not selected any dates for future Shuttle missions since the suspension of Shuttle flights following the Columbia disaster. O'Keefe said that NASA's target to resume Shuttle flights was the end of the calendar year. O'Keefe said that the crew~Commander Eileen M. Collins, Pilot James M. Kelly, Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson, and Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi of Japan's NASDA~would be “challenged with the opportunity to be the first crew to return to flight.” O'Keefe said that the ISS partners would probably fill the other three slots with a three-member crew headed for the ISS. (Deborah Zabarenko for Reuters, “Next Shuttle Crew Named as Columbia Probe Proceeds,” 25 April 2003.
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