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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Navy Commander Robert L. Gibson, the Atlantis crew commander, sat through seven postponements of the shuttle Columbia's liftoff in 1986. Other crew members include Lt. Col. Guy S. Gardner, Col. Richard M. Mullane, and Lt. Col. Jerry L. Ross of the Air Force, and Navy Commander William M. Shepherd. Gardner and Shepherd are on their first shuttle mission. The others have flown before...
After Welch announced that the vehicle was in very clean shape, the Defense Department stopped publicly broadcasting conversations between the crew and ground control for security reasons...
...AVIV, Israel--Five armed Soviets who hijacked a busload of schoolchildren in the Soviet Union and released them in exchange for a plane out of the country surrendered yesterday after landing in Israel with a hostage crew...
Buran's triumphant maiden voyage came after several glitches in the Soviet space program. The first attempt to put the shuttle into orbit was scrubbed last month with only 51 seconds left in the countdown. Worse, a Soviet-Afghan crew was nearly lost in space last September due to a computer malfunction...
...fully automated flight. Onboard computers can guide it through re- entry to the earth's atmosphere and landing. The ship is also capable of manned flight, carrying up to ten people, but the Soviets plan at least one more unmanned shot before putting a crew on board. "Just as we were scared to death by Chernobyl," explains a Western diplomat in Moscow, "they were scared to death when Challenger blew...