Jun 5 1984
From The Space Library
NASA announced the selection of four career scientists to fly as payload specialists on the next two missions of Spacelab, a reusable Space Shuttle-based research facility. Dr. Lodewijk van den Berg of EG&G Corporation, Goleta, Calif., and Dr. Taylor G. Wang of JPL were named flight payload specialists for Spacelab 3, scheduled for launch in January 1985. Dr. Mary Helen Johnston of MSFC and Dr. Eugene H. Trinh of JPL would serve as alternates for Spacelab 3.
Dr. Loren W. Acton of Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., and Dr. John-David Bartoe of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., were named flight payload scientists for Spacelab 2, which was slated for launch in April 1985. Alternates named were Dr. Dianne K. Prinz of the Naval Research Laboratory and Dr. George W. Simon of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory.
Spacelab 3 would be the first operational mission of the research facility with mission emphasis on materials processing in space. Spacelab 3 would use the long version of the laboratory module, in which the scientists would work on a special cargo bay instrument support structure. Spacelab 2, which followed Spacelab 3 due to experiment development delays, included experiments in solar physics, plasma physics, infrared astronomy, high-energy physics, atmospheric physics, and life sciences and technology (NASA Release 84-74)
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