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From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Launch Advisory for 05/13/91 (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1991May14.043250.29252@news.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 14 May 91 04:32:50 GMT
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Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                 May 13, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-4164)

Lisa Malone
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
(Phone:  407/867-2468)


STS-40 LAUNCH ADVISORY


	NASA managers today set May 22, 1991, as the launch date for
the orbiter Columbia on Shuttle Mission STS-40/Spacelab Life
Sciences-1.

	The launch window on May 22 extends from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00
a.m. EDT, with the mission projected to last just over 9 days.  A
launch on May 22 at the opening of the window would put landing at
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. on May 31 at approximately 11:51 a.m.
EDT.

	The crew for STS-40 is Commander Bryan D. O'Connor, Pilot
Sidney M.  Gutierrez, Mission Specialists James P. Bagian, Tamara E.
Jernigan and Margaret Rhea Seddon and Payload Specialists F.  Drew
Gaffney and Millie Hughes-Fulford.