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that's beautiful after the highly
successful 7th shuttle mission featuring
America's first model in space first
food pictures of the show flying on
orbit and the launcher to commercial
satellites Challenger is ready to fly
again STS eight will include a night
launch and landing with liftoff
scheduled for august 30 mission 8 will
again use a five-member team of
astronauts with Richard truly of Fayette
Mississippi as commander truly was pilot
of STS to a test flight of mortgages
Columbia in November 1981 as the volanth
I think it's going to be a spectacular
view but as far as procedures there they
really don't change with the night
launch the landing is different however
during Brandon staying on
of flight test with a number of other
people in developing and night lighting
scheme and we will have it in place at
all the late insights both in being
Edwards and in Norfolk 40 year old Dan
brandenstein will serve as pilot on sts
eight he described the photo
documentation for the flight well we're
taking quite a bit of a film along to
take pictures and as in previous flights
we take a lot of pictures of both the
ocean and the earth a night launch
drives us to a in the southern
hemisphere where in daylight essentially
all the time and in the northern
hemisphere winter dark so we'll be
seeing parts of South America and
Australia that haven't been seen by
previous crews and the both the
oceanographers are interested in the
ocean around these areas and geologists
are interested in some of the land
mission specialist David garden Iowa we
lose the remote manipulator
Frank cast article will explain one
purpose of this simulated satellite the
shape of it is supposed to simulate a
payroll that's coming along on sds 13
called the ram duration exposure
facility lvf that they wrote is so large
that the crew is going to be unable to
see from the a flight back the attached
points where the LDF attaches to the
orbiter solera task is never going to be
to attempt to unbirth it out of the
payload bay berthoud back in the payload
bay with those visual restrictions
similar to that whether flight mission
specialist guy and blueford of
philadelphia pennsylvania will be the
first black American to fly in space
he's primarily responsible for the
deployment of a commercial satellite
called incense once that is Indian
satellite it's a communication satellite
that's going to be used by the Indian
government to broadcast communications
throughout the Indian Peninsula it's
also then be used as a weather satellite
to map the Indian Peninsula with
reference to weather and also be able to
relay that information to remote areas
of India we inform is a mission
specialist and medical doctor who will
be coming on research into the effect of
weightlessness on astronauts and the
sickness that sometimes elevated cars
adjustment well just a large JK what are
you doing is an in-flight investigation
that would be very similar to what
someone would get here on earth if you
went into a specialists office and said
that darn I get dizzy can you tell me
why I have simply translated these
ordinary clinical investigations that
are done into hardware that the
measurements can be made in
weightlessness so that we can
characterize what's going on space
shuttle 8 and night launch and a night
landing for challenging part of this
country's space transportation system
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