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heng44
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posted 04-14-2007 02:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

A photo from the days when Fred Haise was a Shuttle astronaut. Haise and Jack Lousma were named in March 1978 as the third Shuttle crew and trained several months for a mission which would boost the Skylab space station to a higher orbit. But due to increased solar activity Skylab’s orbit decayed faster than anticipated and the Shuttle’s first flight was delayed again and again. Early plans had called for the reboost mission to be undertaken on the sixth Shuttle mission, but schedule pressures pushed it as far ahead as the second mission. In the end, the first Shuttle flight was made almost two years after Skylab’s fiery end on July 11, 1979. Haise resigned and Lousma was promoted to commander for the third Shuttle mission, which flew in March 1982.

Ed Hengeveld

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posted 04-14-2007 07:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for machbusterman   Click Here to Email machbusterman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's a great pic Ed... ANOTHER one I've never seen before.

Best regards, Derek

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