Word: spacelab
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...enormous video screen, a curved line snaked across a map of the world, tracking the voyage of Flight 61-A through space. But wait a minute. Emblazoned on another screen against a black, red and gold background was a message that seemed strangely out of place: ERSTE DEUTSCHE SPACELAB MISSION. Translation: first German Spacelab mission...
...American orbiter Challenger, but for the first time ever, Houston had help. As NASA engineers took care of the nuts and bolts of the flight from Texas, a team of 160 flight specialists in the sleepy town of Oberpfaffenhofen, 15 miles southwest of Munich, oversaw the German D-1 Spacelab, stuffed into Challenger's cargo bay and carrying an elaborate array of 76 scientific experiments. Said a proud Hubertus Wanke, head of mission operations at Oberpfaffenhofen: "It's all similar to Houston, but in upper Bavaria...