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...they have been trained to take care of everything except actually flying the ship, which is left to shuttle pilots. And for Hoffman and his colleagues, the shuttle flight which touched down yesterday morning marked a special hurdle Astronauts Joseph Allen and William Lenoir--who launched the shuttle's cargo of two commercial satellites were the first two mission specialists ever to fly in space...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE.Calif: The space shuttle returned to Earth yesterday as a tried and true carrier of space cargo, its commander sculpting. "Yes sir, we deliver," With dawn's early light shining off the American flag un its side the shuttle cut through desert clouds to a centerline landing...
...current shuttle marks the commercial debut of the giant craft with its releasing of two commercial satellites. Following four missions geared toward mechanical testing, the shuttle now assumes its intended status as a super-duper cargo plane, with NASA has some sort of high-powered United Parcel Service. Further dashing the quixotic nature of the space program has been the shuttle's secret military uses. The fourth shuttle flight last June contained classified military cargo and little else. Rumored to be an infra-red tracking and ranging device, the military stow-aways chillingly affirmed the political role which the shuttle...
...complicated quest for a cargo plane began last year, when a secret Pentagon study pinpointed a critical need for a plane able to carry outsize cargo, such as tanks and helicopters for the new Rapid Deployment Force. The Air Force already had 77 Lockheed C-5A Galaxies, a plane capable of handling large loads but with a checkered history of cost overruns and technical troubles. A design competition for a new carrier was won by McDonnell Douglas with a plane subsequently called the C-17. The Pentagon thus faced three options: to develop the C-17 (whose cost was never...
...based on a careful analysis of our airlift needs." Indeed, experts predict that the joint congressional committee responsible for reconciling the two versions of the 1983 defense authorization bill will almost certainly follow the Pentagon's wishes. Unlike the 747, the C-5B can carry such outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp on the rear of the C-5B and roll off on the ramp at the front. To load a 747, however, equipment must be hoisted 16 ft. off the tarmac and pushed through...