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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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From what I can remember, the first flight of the Robot Arm was either STS-2
or STS-3. In either case, the operator had to be a man, as the crews of 
the missions were respectively Joe Engle and Richard Truly, followed by
Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton.

Of course, I have left out the possibility that you meant the first person
to ever operate the RMS in the ground-testing phase.....


-R.B.   
"I'm not aware of too many things; I know what I know if you know what I mean"