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Date: 12th June 1984
Service: CEEFAX
Region: N/A
Original Broadcast Channel: BBC2
Current Page: 266
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P266 CEEFAX 266 Tue 12 Jun 21:37/54 1/3 When the next American Space Shuttle flight is launched on June 25 it will be using a new craft in space. This will be "Discovery", the third orbiter in the NASA shuttle fleet. The flight will be a seven day mission. Among the special features Nf thic flight will be the presence of the first astronaut not on the government payroll. He will be Charles Walker, a design engineer fijh Nne Nf the USA'c large aerospace companies. More
P266 CEEFAX 266 Tue 12 Jun 21:32/22 2/3 When the next American Space Shuttle takes off from the Kennedy Space Centre on June 25 its team will attempt to make commercial quantities of a medical drug in space for the first time. Previous space flights have carried experiments to prove the practicabilityof the process called "electrophoresis"- a method of separating biological products. But on this flight there will be an attempt to produce a valuable hormone in large enough quantities to start clinical tests back on earth. More
P266 CEEFAX 266 Tue 12 Jun 21:34/25 3/3 The second American woman astronaut will be aboard the spacecraft "Discovery" when it is launched on June 25 in America's next Space Shuttle miksion. She will be Judy Resnik. Mission Specialist Resnik will be in charge of a new experiment to test out a large "solar array" - special panels which generate electricity from sunlight. The solar array will extend 100 feet above the "Discovery" cargo bay, but can be folded down into an 18 inch high package. More
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