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WB7CAP > SAREX 15.01.97 23:51l 44 Lines 983 Bytes #-10670 (0) @ AMSAT
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>Piece of trivia you may not be aware of - SAREX is the only payload which
>has flown on all five orbiters in NASA's shuttle fleet - six if you count
>Enterprise.
>
>Here's the first SAREX flight for each shuttle -
>
>1983 STS-9 OV-102 Columbia
>1985 51-F OV-099 Challenger
>1991 STS-37 OV-104 Atlantis
>1992 STS-49 OV-105 Endeavour
>1993 STS-56 OV-103 Discovery
SAREX was not on the STS-49 mission in 1992 - that was Endeavour's first
flight - the Intelsat VI salvage mission.
However SAREX was on the STS-47 Space Radar Laboratory mission in 1992 on
Endeavour with astro-hams Jay Apt N5QWL.
So the corrected list of first SAREX flights for each shuttle should read -
1983 STS-9 OV-102 Columbia
1985 51-F OV-099 Challenger
1991 STS-37 OV-104 Atlantis
1992 STS-49 OV-105 Endeavour
1993 STS-56 OV-103 Discovery
Philip Chien, KC4YER
Earth News - space writer and consultant
note new E-mail address - pchien@digital.net
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