Sep 8 1993
From The Space Library
NASA selected USN Commander James D. Wetherbee to command the STS-63 mission aboard Shuttle Discovery in mid-1994. Other crew members picked were Major Eileen M. Collins, pilot; C. Michael Foale; Janice E. Voss; Bernard A. Harris, Jr.; and Russian Air Force Colonel Vladimir G. Titov. Collins is the agency's first woman pilot.
NASA announced that Shuttle Discovery was to conduct an unprecedented fly-around maneuver of the Russian Mir Space Station in June. Although the operation was not to include a docking of the two spacecrafts, it would help to establish the rendezvous procedures for a docking mission planned for June 1995. (NASA Release 93-161; H Chron, Sep 9/83)
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