Edward Campion
  Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                             
  February 21, 1992
  (Phone:  202/453-8536)
  
  Barbara Schwartz
  Johnson Space Center, Houston
  (Phone:  713/483-5111)
  
  
  RELEASE:  92-26
  
  CREW ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED FOR FUTURE SHUTTLE MISSIONS
  
  
       Steven R. Nagel (Col., USAF) will command the 
  Spacelab-D2 mission, STS-55, scheduled for an early-1993 
  launch.  This is a cooperative mission with the German Space 
  Agency to conduct research in robotics, materials processing 
  and life sciences.  Nagel is a veteran of three previous 
  Space Shuttle missions, as a mission specialist on STS-51G 
  in June 1985, as Pilot on STS-61A in October 1985 and as 
  Commander on STS-37 in April 1991.   
  
       Pilot on the STS-55 mission will be Terrence T. "Tom" 
  Henricks (Col., USAF), who was Pilot on STS-44 in November 
  1991.  Charles J. Precourt (Maj., USAF), astronaut class of 
  1990, is assigned as a mission specialist.  This is his 
  first flight assignment.   
  
       Previously assigned crew members are Payload Commander 
  Jerry L. Ross (Col., USAF), mission specialist Bernard A. 
  Harris, Jr., M.D., and German payload specialists Hans 
  Schlegel and Ulrich Walter.   
  
       G. David Low, who served as a mission specialist on two 
  Shuttle flights, STS-32 in January 1990 and STS-43 in August 
  1991, will be Payload Commander on STS-57, which will carry 
  the commercial middeck augmentation module called SPACEHAB 
  and retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier.  STS-57 is 
  scheduled for launch in mid-1993.  Janice E. Voss, Ph.D., is 
  assigned to this flight as a mission specialist.  This is 
  the first flight assignment for Voss, who is a member of the 
  astronaut 1990 class.   
  
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       Thomas D. Jones, Ph.D., will be a mission specialist on 
  the Space Radar Laboratory-01 flight, STS-60, in late 1993.  
  This is the first flight for Jones, also a member of the 
  1990 astronaut class.  Linda M. Godwin, Ph.D., was assigned 
  in August 1991 as mission Payload Commander.  SRL-01 will 
  acquire radar images of the Earth's surface for making maps 
  and interpreting geological features and resource studies.   
  
       Additional crew members on STS-57 and STS-60 will be 
  named at a later date. 
  
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