STS-73 Mission and Payload Specialists
I think I had this photo printed out because at the time, two of the payload specialists were working in Boston, and I figured I could get them easily enough.
These are the mission and prime and alternate payload specialists for STS-73, which carried the second United States Microgravity Laboratory Spacelab mission in late 1995.
From left to right: Kathryn C. Thornton. This was her fourth flight. She left NASA to join the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1996.
Thornton was on my bucket list of astronauts I had seen but not gotten an autograph from. She signed this and my Space Shuttle: 20 Years book at the Welcome Discovery event in April 2012. We had begun to walk away from the "cattle chute" of astronauts when my wife spotted Thornton, calling out, "Look, there's a lady astronaut!" It was fortunate, because we had spotted Thornton earlier but didn't get her autograph. Smithsonian Air and Space, Udvar-Hazy.
Albert Sacco Jr. STS-73 was his only flight. I had contacted a few astronauts in Boston one day and Sacco responded he wasn't sure what his schedule was. Yet he was the only one in his office, at Northeastern University, which was really lucky because the following month he left for his new job in Texas. Signed either 8 or 14 December 2010.
R. Glynn Holt, alternate PS - tried twice to catch him in his office at Boston U., both times unsuccessful.
David H. Matthiesen, alternate PS - professor at Case Western U in Ohio. That'll be a road trip!
Fred W. Leslie - STS-73 was Leslie's only spaceflight.
Catherine G. "Cady" Coleman - This was his first flight of three. I caught her at the STS-134 crew presentation at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in August 2011. (She was part of the Expedition 33 and 34 crews, during which STS-134 visited.) Coleman was being asked to have a photo taken with her, so I quickly handed her this picture and told her, "I'm glad you got your third flight." She went back to her picture but not before telling me, "I'm glad, too."
STS-73 Mission and Payload Specialists
I think I had this photo printed out because at the time, two of the payload specialists were working in Boston, and I figured I could get them easily enough.
These are the mission and prime and alternate payload specialists for STS-73, which carried the second United States Microgravity Laboratory Spacelab mission in late 1995.
From left to right: Kathryn C. Thornton. This was her fourth flight. She left NASA to join the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1996.
Thornton was on my bucket list of astronauts I had seen but not gotten an autograph from. She signed this and my Space Shuttle: 20 Years book at the Welcome Discovery event in April 2012. We had begun to walk away from the "cattle chute" of astronauts when my wife spotted Thornton, calling out, "Look, there's a lady astronaut!" It was fortunate, because we had spotted Thornton earlier but didn't get her autograph. Smithsonian Air and Space, Udvar-Hazy.
Albert Sacco Jr. STS-73 was his only flight. I had contacted a few astronauts in Boston one day and Sacco responded he wasn't sure what his schedule was. Yet he was the only one in his office, at Northeastern University, which was really lucky because the following month he left for his new job in Texas. Signed either 8 or 14 December 2010.
R. Glynn Holt, alternate PS - tried twice to catch him in his office at Boston U., both times unsuccessful.
David H. Matthiesen, alternate PS - professor at Case Western U in Ohio. That'll be a road trip!
Fred W. Leslie - STS-73 was Leslie's only spaceflight.
Catherine G. "Cady" Coleman - This was his first flight of three. I caught her at the STS-134 crew presentation at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in August 2011. (She was part of the Expedition 33 and 34 crews, during which STS-134 visited.) Coleman was being asked to have a photo taken with her, so I quickly handed her this picture and told her, "I'm glad you got your third flight." She went back to her picture but not before telling me, "I'm glad, too."