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From: richard@eel.cs.ucla.edu (Richard A. Balser)
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Subject: Re: A shuttle trivia question
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Date: 10 Jan 90 06:51:30 GMT
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>In article <1990Jan8.153924.2583@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> gabriele@hub.toronto.edu (Mark Gabriele ) writes:
>#Astronaut Terry Hart (male) used the arm to grapple the Solar Max satellite,
>#and thus became the first person to catch an orbitting satellite.  I do
>#not recall the mission number.
>
>STS-11.
>

The mission was actually the thirteenth shuttle flight and called STS- 41C
using the flight numbering system which lasted up to Challenger's launch
in 1986....

--RB