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... C-5A aircraft carrying the German Spacelab D-1 , the first payload in the history of U.S. manned spaceflight to be controlled from another country, landed May 1 at the Kennedy Space Center ... (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 Smith said ...

... active Junior ROTC Reserve Officer’s Training Corps program in the high schools in Washington, D.C. The program was mandatory for tenth graders and voluntary for eleventh and twelfth graders ... there was shifting of launch times, because we were on Spacelab 3 and I know we launched before Spacelab 2 and after Spacelab 1. I think they had some payloads that they wanted to ... ’d done this eight and a half minutes. We were safely on orbit. Communication worked well. So it was now time to open up the Spacelab and begin to set up the Spacelab ...

... = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Dirk D. Frimout header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Mar 21 1941 header4 = label4 = Birth ... for Spacelab-1. 1984-89 Microgracity Division of ESTEC, responsible for sounding rocket program, parabolic flights, experiments on EURECA 1 , reflight of Spacelab-1 experiments. Currently ...

... , semi permanent payload carrier with modified docking facilities. ( ESA release July 1/85) Rep. Samuel Stratton (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's procurement ... 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 ...

... Johnson Space Center Oral History Project at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sandra Johnson is the interviewer and is assisted by Rebecca ... the SMS Liaison Officer. Was that what you did primarily through STS-1 and -2? '''O'Connor:''' Yes, the first two flights, I was ... landing later on. The other thing I remember was the first Spacelab mission, where we had what came to be called the POCC, ...

... their decay would occur after half-life of the nuclear elements. (A/D, Feb 11/85, 1) Langley Research Center NASA announced that Robert Nunamaker, formerly chief engineer at ... 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 ...

... checkout and launch support for STS-1 and STS-2; Flight Data File Manager; lead spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM); Chief, Operational Safety, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.; Chief, Astronaut Training; ... NASA Deputy Administrator (2002-2005). Gregory resigned from NASA in October 2005. STS-51B /Spacelab-3 launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida, on April 29, 1985. The crew aboard ...

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 ...

... a 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 through ... -21; text, Pres. Doc., Apr 4, 7/83; NY Times, Apr 6/83, A-1; Apr 7/83, D-7; Apr 8/83, A-l; Apr 9/83, 8; Apr 10/83, 1; W Post, Mar 31/83, A-15; Apr 5/83, A-l; Apr 6/83, A-1; Apr ...

... 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 ... problem. (NASA Dly Am Rpt, Sept 9/83; NY Times, Sept 2/83, D-20; Sept 4/83, 1, 36; Sept 5/83, 9; Sept 7/83, A-18, A-22; W ...

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