Mary L. Cleave
My collage I got signed by Mary Cleave. On the left, the 61B gag photo; on the right, the alternate STS-30R crew pic. She mentioned that with the delays relating to her first flight - from 51D/Challenger to 51L/Challenger to 61B/Atlantis - she got to work with a wide variety of payloads.
Woody Spring designed the first patch, Cleave said.
From a JSC release dated 2 Feb 1984:
The crew of a 1985 Space Shuttle mission, and a partial crew for a 1986 mission, have been announced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The flights are mission 51-D, scheduled for launch in February 1985, and 61-D forecasted for January 1986.
Commander of 51-D will be Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. (Lt. Colonel, USAF), 38, of Cass City, Mich. Shaw was pilot of the orbiter, Columbia on STS-9, the first Spacelab mission flown in November and December 1983.
Shaw's crew will consist of Bryan D. O'Connor (Major, USMC), 37, of Twentynine Palms, Calif., pilot; and Mission Specialists Mary Cleave, Ph.D., 36, Southampton, N.Y.; Sherwood C. Spring (Major, USA), 39, Hartford Conn.; and Jerry L. Ross (Major, USAF), 35, Crown Point, Ind.
Mission 51-D is to be the 21st Space Shuttle operation and the ninth flight of the orbiter, Challenger. Principal objectives of the six-day flight will be deployment of a SYNCOM communications satellite, and retrieval of the free-flying Long Duration Exposure Facility.
The LDEF is scheduled to be deployed in April on mission 41-C, and contains experiments which require long-term exposure to the space environment.
Sometime in July, due to Discovery's main engine abort and subsequent reshuffling:
FLIGHT 51-L
Projected date: July 2, 1985
Orbiter: Challenger
Payload:
EOS-1
TDRS-C
OASIS
Flight crew:
Brewster H. Shaw Jr., CDR
Bryan D. O'Connor, PLT
Mary L. Cleave, MS
Sherwood C. Spring, MS
Jerry L. Ross, MS
From a JSC release dated June 29, 1989:
In another flight crew assignment, Mary L. Cleave, Ph.D., and Norman E. Thagard, M.D., have been named as mission specialists for STS-42, a nine-day flight aboard Columbia, set for December, 1990. The partial crew assignment will allow for long range crew participation in payload training and integration associated with the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1). The remainder of the 7-member crew will be named later.
Mary L. Cleave
My collage I got signed by Mary Cleave. On the left, the 61B gag photo; on the right, the alternate STS-30R crew pic. She mentioned that with the delays relating to her first flight - from 51D/Challenger to 51L/Challenger to 61B/Atlantis - she got to work with a wide variety of payloads.
Woody Spring designed the first patch, Cleave said.
From a JSC release dated 2 Feb 1984:
The crew of a 1985 Space Shuttle mission, and a partial crew for a 1986 mission, have been announced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The flights are mission 51-D, scheduled for launch in February 1985, and 61-D forecasted for January 1986.
Commander of 51-D will be Brewster H. Shaw, Jr. (Lt. Colonel, USAF), 38, of Cass City, Mich. Shaw was pilot of the orbiter, Columbia on STS-9, the first Spacelab mission flown in November and December 1983.
Shaw's crew will consist of Bryan D. O'Connor (Major, USMC), 37, of Twentynine Palms, Calif., pilot; and Mission Specialists Mary Cleave, Ph.D., 36, Southampton, N.Y.; Sherwood C. Spring (Major, USA), 39, Hartford Conn.; and Jerry L. Ross (Major, USAF), 35, Crown Point, Ind.
Mission 51-D is to be the 21st Space Shuttle operation and the ninth flight of the orbiter, Challenger. Principal objectives of the six-day flight will be deployment of a SYNCOM communications satellite, and retrieval of the free-flying Long Duration Exposure Facility.
The LDEF is scheduled to be deployed in April on mission 41-C, and contains experiments which require long-term exposure to the space environment.
Sometime in July, due to Discovery's main engine abort and subsequent reshuffling:
FLIGHT 51-L
Projected date: July 2, 1985
Orbiter: Challenger
Payload:
EOS-1
TDRS-C
OASIS
Flight crew:
Brewster H. Shaw Jr., CDR
Bryan D. O'Connor, PLT
Mary L. Cleave, MS
Sherwood C. Spring, MS
Jerry L. Ross, MS
From a JSC release dated June 29, 1989:
In another flight crew assignment, Mary L. Cleave, Ph.D., and Norman E. Thagard, M.D., have been named as mission specialists for STS-42, a nine-day flight aboard Columbia, set for December, 1990. The partial crew assignment will allow for long range crew participation in payload training and integration associated with the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1). The remainder of the 7-member crew will be named later.