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... Space Transportation System s/payload interaction. The 7-day flight, a verification test of Spacelab systems and Spacelab /orbiter interfaces, would carry about 40 experiments. Garriott had flown on the second manned ... 16/78, 3; DSFC X-Press, Aug 11/78, 3; Langley Researcher, Aug 11/78, 1) NASA announced it had selected four American scientists as payload specialists for the second Spacelab mission scheduled ... for the Spacelab mission. (NASA Release 78-120; Marshall Star, Aug 9/78, 1) July 1978 July August 1978 August Aug 1 1978 1 Aug 2 1978 2 Aug 3 1978 3 Aug ...

... a "famous first" for NASA; the scientists chosen by their colleagues having experiments aboard the Spacelab would be the first noncareer astronauts and would include the first Western Europeans and the ... scientists. Two of the selectees would actually fly on Spacelab 1 , and the other three would operate the experiment equipment on earth. Spacelab 1 would carry 40 instruments, about equally divided between ... -2) 1979 January 1979 January Jan 1 1979 1 Jan 2 1979 2 Jan 3 1979 3 Jan 4 1979 4 Jan 5 1979 5 Jan 6 1979 6 Jan 7 1979 ...

... a 3-mo exercise called Spacelab Critical Design Review, whose results would go to a final board meeting on design changes needed for Spacelab to fly. ESA 's prime contractor, ERNO, had assembled Spacelab ... selected would be consolidated with ESA -identified discrepancies and forwarded to ERNO. (Spaceport News, Feb 3/78, 1) John Pierce of the CalTech department of electrical engineering wrote in a Science ...

... fund and develop the $300- to $400-million Spacelab , a supporting system important to realization of the space shuttle 's full potential. The Spacelab would facilitate joint-use programs with U.S. and foreign astronauts. ''(NASA Release 73-191)'' April 1973 April May 1973 May May 1 1973 1 May 2 1973 2 May 3 ...

... experiment packages in a zero-gravity environment, the crew developed techniques for use on Spacelab . As principal investigator for three scientific experiments and co-investigator on another, Dr. Johnston ... and John Glenn (D-Ohio)-which was "representation out of all proportion." (W Post, 3 Nov 76, A-17; broadcast, 2 Nov 76) October 1976 October November 1976 November ...

... in future years, including preliminary work for payloads to fly on the Space Shuttle and Spacelab . The 1975 calendar year launch schedule was one of the most ambitious in U.S ... , 1 Feb 76, transcript; NASA Release, FY 76 budget briefing background material; Fletcher budget statement, 3 Feb 76, text) The Federal Council for Science and Technology, a committee of officials representing ...

... contains enough information to allow investigators to work backward and forward in time. (CSM, Mar 3/93) Senator John Warner (R-Virginia), introduced legislation to kill NASA's manned Space Station ... "wasteful and unnecessary," the senator urged President Clinton to kill the project. (W Post, Mar 3/93, Mar 4/93) NASA announced at least a two-day delay in the planned ... weeks for the German Spacelab mission. (AP, Mar 3/93, Mar 4/93; UPI, Mar 3/93; P Inq, Mar 4/93; USA Today, Mar 4/93; RTw, Mar 3/93) February 1993 February ...

... scientific, applications, and manned satellites such as Space Shuttle , Spacelab , and Shuttle-launched spacecraft scheduled for the 1980s. (Av Wk, Jan 3/77, 14; NASA Release 76-213) Seven European nations planning ... 10 Doppler tracking stations ready by the time SEASAT would be operational. (Av Wk, Jan 3/77, 20) 1977 January 1977 January Jan 1 1977 1 Jan 2 1977 2 Jan ...

... to design and development of an Atmospheric Cloud Physics Laboratory (ACPL) as a payload aboard Spacelab , MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC announced. ACPL experiments would give scientists a knowledge of weather ... 1975 August September 1975 September Sept 1 1975 1 Sept 2 1975 2 Sept 3 1975 3 Sept 4 1975 4 Sept 5 1975 5 Sept 6 1975 6 Sept 7 1975 ...

... hoped to obtain a single, long-term contract. Responsibilities included payload/cargo processing and integration, Spacelab operations and integration, support to experimental integration activities, payload/cargo de-integration, NASA/Vandenberg ... November December 1986 December Dec 1 1986 1 Dec 2 1986 2 Dec 3 1986 3 Dec 4 1986 4 Dec 5 1986 5 Dec 6 1986 6 Dec 7 ...

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