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Challenger's astronauts complete a historic repair mission...
Challenger's astronauts will attempt the first satellite repair...
...flight that should demonstrate anew the space shuttle's versatility, the orbiter Challenger will attempt to revivify Solar Max. If these celestial dramatics succeed, they will represent the space age's first retrieval and repair of an earth satellite. Challenger is scheduled to begin its historic fix-it flight from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Friday, April 6, at 8:59 a.m. E.S.T On this eleventh shuttle journey, Navy Captain Bob Crippen, 46, a veteran of two earlier missions, and his four-man, all-rookie crew will be breaking other new ground...
...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 the whirling gyroscope-like wheels and other electronic gear for maintaining Solar Max's position in space. The entire job, from grappling the satellite...
...orbital repair completed, Challenger's crew will return to Florida on Thursday, April 12. If the complex mission works as planned, Challenger will have shown the world that costly satellites need no longer be allowed to die wastefully in space. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Geoffrey Leavenworth/Houston