Mar 23 1979
From The Space Library
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MSFC announced that payload specialists selected for Spacelab 2 would begin training in April with an orientation tour to visit most of the principal investigators whose experiments would ride on the 1982 mission. Each of the selectees had been a co-investigator on one of the Spacelab 2 experiments. The three men and one woman selected would visit six sites in the United States and three in the United Kingdom for a first look at many of the experiments and to allow them to decide with MSFC; management how much training they would need before the flight. To be visited were Chicago, Iowa City, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, Mass., in the United States; and Abingdon, Dorking, and Birmingham in England. Those selected were Dr. Loren W. Acton, research scientist at Lockheed's Palo Alto laboratory; Dr. John-David F. Bartoe and Dr. Dianne K. Prinz, research physicists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; and Dr. George W. Simon, chief of the solar research branch at the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, assigned to the Sacramento Peak observatory in New Mexico. Two of the specialists would actually fly on Spacelab 2 to operate the scientific experiments; the others would operate ground-based equipment and assist the two in orbit. Spacelab 2's payload wound consist mainly of experiments in astronomy, high-energy astrophysics, and solar physics, plus plasma physics, botany, medicine, and space technology. (MSFC Release 79-30)
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