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posted 03-29-2024 02:05 PM               

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In a first for NASA, an all-female crew of scientific experimenters began a five-day exercise on December 16, 1974, to test the feasibility of experiments that were later tested on the Spacelab missions. Dr. Mary H. Johnston (seated, left), Ann F. Whitaker and Carolyn S. Griner (standing, left to right), and the crew chief, Doris Chandler, spent eight hours each day of the mission in the Marshall Space Flight Center's General Purpose Laboratory (GPL).

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