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Topic: Longest time between assignment and launch
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Member Posts: 1275
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 01-10-2024 04:29 PM
   
In the past, what is the longest time interval between the crew assignment announcement and their actual launch? It looks like now it might be at least 2-1/2 years for the Artemis II crew. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3867
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 01-10-2024 04:38 PM
The ASTP crew was announced in January 1973. So that is 2-1/2 years. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 51662
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-10-2024 04:48 PM
There are likely other examples, but the core four members of the STS-114 crew were assigned in 2001 and did not fly until 2005. |
Skylon
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Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 01-11-2024 07:21 AM
While STS-114's flight deck crew had a similar, if not slightly longer wait that crew did see some changes/crew members added. To my knowledge the longest wait for a complete flight crew goes to STS-115. Named in February 2002 and not flying until September 2006. |
brianjbradley
Member Posts: 168
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 01-11-2024 08:29 AM
The first four shuttle crew announcements came out March 16, 1978. So that's three years and almost a month from announcement (keeping in mind assignment was earlier) to flight for STS-1 alone. With Jack Lousma (assigned to STS-3) and C. Gordon Fullerton (first assigned to STS-4, later -3) in that assignment announcement, they had a four year plus one week wait from assignment to flight. |
Axman
Member Posts: 320
From: Derbyshire UK
Registered: Mar 2023
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posted 01-11-2024 09:14 AM
Well, I suppose it all rests on the actual literal definition used, but Jon Goodwin and Richard Branson had to wait 18 years between being "assigned" as first passengers and eventually flying on Virgin Galactic. |
OV-105
Member Posts: 911
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 01-11-2024 03:05 PM
Not the whole crew but STS 61-E Astro 1 was named in 1985 and didn't fly until December 1990, so almost five years. |
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