‘Exciting’ shuttle flight predicted
NZPA-AP Cape Canaveral The four men and one woman who will fly what their commander calls an exciting space shuttle mission arrived at the Kennedy Space Centre yesterday for final preparations for Thursday’s launching. During eight days aboard the shuttle Discovery the astronauts will release two communications satellites, and,, retrieve and return to Earth two others that fired into the wrong orbits in February. “It’s an exciting mission,” Commander Rick Hauck said after the crew flew in from their training base at Houston. “We’re very excited about taking two satellites up into space and bringing back two others.” The other crew members are the pilot, David Walker, and mission specialists — Dr Anna Fisher, Dr Joe Allen and, Lieutenant-Com-mander Dale Gardner. Dr Fisher is the fourth American woman and first mother named to a space flight. She and her astronaut husband, Bill, have a daughter, aged Lift-off will be at 2.18 a.m. on Thursday (N.Z. time).
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Press, 6 November 1984, Page 8
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