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...skipper is Veteran Astronaut John Young, 53, who flew the first shuttle mission in 1981. His total of five space flights, including a 1972 lunar landing, is a world record. Jokes Young: "I love to fly, but all of my parts are starting to wear out." Young's copilot will be Air Force Major Brewster Shaw Jr., 38, a veteran of Viet Nam, who will be making his first space flight...
...computers some erroneous information while aloft. The INS can store only nine sets of coordinates; there were twelve way points along Flight 007's route to Seoul, which means that new sets of latitudes and longitudes had to be plugged in sometime during the trip. The copilot, who on Korean Air Lines flights is usually responsible for entering navigational data, might have done so after Neeva. Although each INS is supposed to be programmed separately, in practice the numbers are often put in simultaneously. The co-pilot (or other crew member) on Flight 007 could have simply misread...
...eight miles outside the city. A 500-lb. bomb landed near the hangar of Aeronica, the national airline, causing minor damage, and Nicaraguan soldiers reportedly opened fire with antiaircraft guns along the runways. The propeller-driven plane crashed at the base of the control tower, killing the pilot and copilot and touching off a fire that destroyed part of the terminal...
...Friday morning, after six days in space and 95½ orbits of the earth, if the schedule holds and winds and weather are fair, Challenger will end its flight. Crippen and his copilot, Rick Hauck, 42, will glide the 100-ton craft to the first shuttle landing on the new three-mile-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center, with President Reagan looking on. Thus Challenger, which was prepared for flight in a record 63 days, will avoid the long and expensive cross-country piggyback haul that followed previous touchdowns on the Western deserts. The price for the convenience...
...hops across the lunar wasteland. But move over, buddy. The women are coming, breaching that old space boys' club and bursting into what Ms. magazine sardonically calls NASA's world of "flaming, phallic rockets." During the next shuttle launch, sitting right there behind the skipper and his copilot, watching those blinking dials and video displays with her eagle eyes, will be Sally Kristen Ride, 32, former schoolgirl tennis star, Ph.D. in physics, cool, witty and attractive, and the possessor of just about as much of the Right Stuff as any man who ever preceded her into space...