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From: shelley@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (shelley.l.rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: A shuttle trivia question
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Date: 9 Jan 90 19:29:07 GMT
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In article <666@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@chrpserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>Here is a question that occurred to me when I read in the
>paper today that Dr. Bonnie Dunbar will operate the mechanical arm
>to  grab te LDEF satellite during the forthcoming shuttle mission.
>
>I vaguely recall that a woman operated the arm the first time it
>was used.  If my recollection is correct, then has the arm been
>operated by a woman in every mission where it was used?


Actually, it depends on what you mean by, "operated."  The first time
the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) was used was in STS-2--Engle and
Truly used it to verify that it worked.  It was also used in STS-3 by
Lousma and Fullerton to move the Plasma Diagnostics Package around
outside and inside the payload bay, and restore it to the stored position.
Likewise, Mattingly and Hartsfield used it to swing the Induced
Environmental Contamination Monitor around the orbiter.

The first woman to use the RMS was Ride in STS-7.

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