Feb 21 1990
From The Space Library
Launching of the Shuttle Atlantis and deployment of a classified payload mission on February 22 were canceled because the mission Commander had a sore throat and headache, coupled with the prediction of wind and rain over Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the first time a NASA mission had been scrubbed because of crew illness. (NY Times, Feb 22/90; Feb 23/90; W Post, Feb 22/90)
Space Shuttle mission specialist Colonel Richard M. Mullane announced his retirement from NASA, effective July 1, 1990. He flew two Shuttle flights in 1984 and 1988 and was scheduled to fly aboard the Atlantis later in February. (NASA Release 90-28)
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