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...Electra arrived in Reno that evening. Shortly after midnight, with Heasley at the controls, the plane took off for Minneapolis. After only two minutes in the air, Copilot Kevin Fieldsa radioed the tower: "We've got to get back on the ground . . . vibration in the aircraft." His voice was shaking with the Electra's tremors...
...shuttle's 50-ft.-long, remote-controlled mechanical arm, operated from inside the cockpit by Electrical Engineer Terry Hart, 37, will lock onto a grappling device on Solar Max. (Challenger's fifth astronaut is Dick Scobee, 44, a onetime airplane mechanic who will be Crippen's copilot.) With helpful nudges from Nelson and Van Hoften, Solar Max will be eased into a special cradle in the cargo bay for the repair. The astronauts' task in the bay will be to remove a defective attitude-control module, a 500-lb., orange-crate-size package that contains...
Meanwhile, inside the shuttle, Navy Commander Robert Gibson, 37, the copilot, drew a less enviable assignment: he had to free a jammed waste-clearing fan in the shuttle's balky $1.2 million toilet. This high-tech chamber pot, designed to work in the absence of gravity, has broken down repeatedly during shuttle flights. To the crew's relief, Gibson's plumbing skills eventually got the facility working...
Although the lost satellite cast a shadow over the mission, Challenger's commander, Vance Brand, 52, a former Marine pilot on his third spaceflight, and his four crewmen, including Copilot Robert ("Hoot") Gibson, 37, a space novice, faced other weighty matters. In many ways Flight 41-B, as the mission is called under a new numbering system fathomable only to NASA bureaucrats, is the most ambitious sortie into space to date. It features a full agenda of experiments, including one intriguing test devised by a high school student to see if zero-g can relieve the agony of arthritic...
While Young's copilot, Air Force Major Brewster Shaw, took charge, one of three inertial measuring units, which sense any changes in the spacecraft's speed or direction, mysteriously broke down. In addition, the laws of celestial mechanics added a political problem. Each extra swing around the earth changed Columbia's path. As a result, when the ship swooped out of its last orbit, instead of coming in south of Australia and over the western Pacific, it passed only 80 miles above eastern Siberia in the militarily sensitive area of the Sakhalin Peninsula where Soviet aircraft shot...