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/ -end- NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to domo@hq.nasa.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type the words "subscribe press-release" (no quotes). The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. A second automatic message will include additional information on the service. NASA releases also are available via CompuServe using the command GO NASA.