Description: My brother worked at NASA in the 80's and had this photo signed. Both photos included. On April 19, 1982, NASA announced the crew for STS-7, a six-day mission aboard space shuttle Challenger, then planned for April 1983. NASA named Robert L. Crippen as commander of the flight, the first astronaut assigned to a second shuttle mission, Frederick “Rick” H. Hauck as the pilot, and John M. Fabian and Sally K. Ride as the two mission specialists. Ride held the honor as the first American woman assigned to a space mission, and along with Hauck and Fabian, they jointly held the honor as the first from the Class of 1978 named to a shuttle crew. Following several cases of space motion sickness on the early shuttle missions, on Dec 21, 1982, NASA added Dr. Norman E. Thagard, a physician-astronaut also from the Class of 1978, as a fifth member of the STS-7 crew to conduct in-depth studies to better understand the causes of the malady. In addition to launching the two communications satellites, Anik C2 satellite for Telesat Canada and Palapa B1 for Indonesia, STS-7 also carried the German-built retrievable Shuttle Pallet Satellite SPAS-01, with 10 experiments on board, and the Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications OSTA-2 payload carrying three experiments. The Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System (CFES) commercial experiment, flown on previous missions, was mounted in the shuttle’s middeck.
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Location: New York, New York
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Industry: Space
Signed by: Sally Ride
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Original/Reproduction: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
