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From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: STS-39/Discovery launch date set (Forwarded)
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Date: 17 Apr 91 06:57:07 GMT
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Jim Cast
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                        April 15, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-8536)

Dick Young
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone:  407/867-2468)

Capt. Marty Hauser
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
(Phone:  703/695-5766)


Release:  91-54

STS-39/DISCOVERY LAUNCH DATE SET


	At the conclusion of today's Flight Readiness Review of mission 
STS-39 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, Shuttle and payload 
managers targeted April 23 for launch of this Department of Defense-
dedicated mission.

	The launch window for STS-39 on April 23 opens at 7:05 a.m. and 
extends to 
9:35 a.m. EDT, on Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

	Commanding the seven-man Discovery crew will be Navy Capt. 
Michael L. Coats.  Air Force Major L. Blaine Hammond will serve as 
pilot.  Mission Specialists include Gregory J. Harbaugh;  USAF Lt. 
Col. Don McMonagle;  USAF Col. Guion Bluford;  C. Lacy Veach;  and 
Richard J. Hieb.

	Two primary payloads will be carried aboard Discovery:  Air 
Force Program 675 (AFP-675) and the Strategic Defense Initiative 
Organization's (SDIO) Infrared Background Signature Survey (IBSS).