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... had selected its payload specialists from among thousands of applicants from its member states. The Spacelab 1 mission would investigate stratosphere and upper atmosphere physics, materials processing, space plasma physics, life sciences ... responsibility for the Spacelab mission; ESA 's Spacelab Payload Integration and Coordination in Europe (SPICE) had managed training in Europe. (NASA Release 78-76; Johnson Space Center JSC Roundup, June 1/78, 4 ...

February 1-5: George Bush, U.S. vice president, unveiled at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC the flight version of Spacelab , a reusable scientific-research facility designed to fly on the Shuttle. At ... . The program, which cost ESA about $1 billion, would provide NASA, at no charge, with one engineering model and one complete flight version of Spacelab with associated ground-support equipment and some ...

... the greatest possible scientific return and to select payload specialists who would perform experiments aboard Spacelab 3. Those at the meeting agreed on professional qualifications for payload specialists and on criteria ... manage integration and operation of the scientific payloads flown on the first 3 Spacelab missions. (Marshall Star, Feb 1/78, 1) MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC reported that the USAF had redesignated an ...

... (DFVLR) German Space Operations Center in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich would have responsibility for the 80 Spacelab D-1 (D for Deutschland) experiments. During the welcoming ceremony, ( KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC ) Director Dick ... the U.S. in manned space flight to be a good example of international cooperation." Spacelab D-1 , scheduled to fly on the seven-day Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia mission STS61-A ...

... , U1)'' 1-7 October: Astronaut-physician Dr. F. Story Musgrave and Dr. Dennis R. Morrison of Johnson Space Center 's Bioscience Payloads Office spent one week in a mockup Spacelab at JSC ... integration, and biomedical demonstrations representative of Spacelab medical experiments. ''(JSC Release 74-255; JSC Roundup, 11 Oct 74, 1)'' September 1974 September October 1974 October Oct 1 1974 1 Oct 2 1974 2 Oct ...

... estimated lifetime was 1.5 yr. This was the second successful launch with the new N rocket. (FBIS, Kyodo 29 Feb 76) A technical management team called SPICE (for Spacelab payload integration ... Spacelab payload: coordination of instrument and experiment development; data management; design and interface specifications; schedule monitoring; acceptance of experiments, and approval of integration tests; and coordination of training programs. ( ESA release, 1 ...

... components necessary for successful laboratory operation, for its technical and programmatic monitoring of Spacelab 's European design and development activities, and for lending technical expertise and support ... ' research, particularly as observed from earth-orbiting satellites. (Dept. of the Navy Release 1-85) COMSAT Comsat Corp. announced unaudited year-end results showing a $29 million ...

... 85) Marshall Space Flight Center ( MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC ) announced that July 1 marked the center's 25th anniversary. MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC currently ... Space Shuttle 's engines, propellant tank, and booster rockets; the Hubble Space Telescope; Spacelab orbiting research laboratories; the Space Shuttle upper stage systems; and a significant portion ...

... Challenger , with Weitz at the controls, landed at Edwards Air Force Base April 9 at 1:53 p.m. EST. Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson , NASA associate administrator for space ... communications link needed for the European Space Agency 's ( ESA ) Spacelab mission due to fly on STS-9 ; Spacelab would carry about 40 scientific experiments requiring constant communications with Earth ...

... see tests of the TDRS, now properly located to transmit communications during next April's Spacelab mission for most of the Shuttle orbit rather than the present 20%. The odd workday ... the trouble lay in the instructions given the White Sands computers and that he expected Spacelab to fly on time. The crew also underwent tests by Dr. William Thornton on the ... /83, IA; Time, Sept 12/83, 42) August 1983 August September 1983 September Sep 1 1983 1 Sep 2 1983 2 Sep 3 1983 3 Sep 4 1983 4 Sep 5 1983 ...

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