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Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: STS-7 Scheduled
Article-I.D.: alice.1808
Posted: Tue May 10 17:15:30 1983
Received: Tue May 17 00:50:27 1983

NASA today announced that STS-7 will launch on 18 June and land
six days later on the concrete runway at KSC.  The crew will
be commanded by Capt. Robert L. Crippen (STS-2) and will consist of
Capt. Frederick Hauck, Lt. Col. John M. Fabian, Dr. Norman
Thagard, and Sally K. Ride, America's first woman in space.  During
the mission, the crew will deploy two communications satellites
and a West German scientific payload.