Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, DC            March 15, 1996
(Phone:  202/358-1780)

Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone:  713/483-5111)

RELEASE: 96-53

HUBBLE SERVICING MISSION COMMANDER, PILOT NAMED

     U.S. Navy Commander Kenneth D. Bowersox and Scott J. 
"Doc" Horowitz, Ph.D. (Lt. Colonel, USAF) have been named 
to command and pilot, respectively, the second Space 
Shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope 
scheduled for early next year. 

     They join Payload Commander Mark C. Lee (Colonel, 
USAF), Gregory J. Harbaugh, Steven L. Smith and Joseph R. 
Tanner who were named in May 1995 as the spacewalkers for 
the mission.  Steven A. Hawley, Ph.D., who will serve as 
the flight engineer and primary remote manipulator system 
operator, was named to the crew in February.

     The 10-day STS-82 mission currently includes four 
planned spacewalks.  The four extravehicular activity 
crewmembers will alternate on the spacewalks to accomplish 
a number of equipment changeouts and upgrades on the 
telescope.  Major equipment changeouts include two science 
instruments and a data interface unit.  The instruments are 
the Near Infrared Camera Multi-Object Spectrometer and the 
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.

     Bowersox, 39, considers Bedford, IN, his hometown.  
Horowitz, 38, just completed his first Shuttle mission 
(STS-75) and considers Thousand Oaks, CA, his hometown.

     For complete biographical information on these and 
other astronauts, see the Internet homepage at address:  
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/

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