Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, DC         February 15, 1995
(Phone:  202/358-1776)

Lisa Malone
Kennedy Space Center, FL
(Phone:  407/867-2468)

RELEASE:  95-15

NASA SETS MARCH 2 FOR LAUNCH OF STS-67

     NASA managers today set March 2, 1995 as the launch 
date for STS-67, the second Space Shuttle mission of 1995. 

     The Space Shuttle Endeavour will launch the second 
flight of the ASTRO payload, a cluster of unique telescopes 
in the Shuttle's payload bay which will turn Endeavour into 
an ultraviolet observatory.  The set of mechanized "eyes" 
will give astronomers a view of the heavens impossible to 
obtain from the ground.

     Endeavour is scheduled to be launched at 1:37 a.m. EST 
from Launch Complex 39-A.  Endeavour's flight is planned to 
be the longest mission ever flown by a Shuttle crew with a 
mission duration of 15 days, 13 hours, 32 minutes.  Landing 
at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility is 
planned for March 17 at 3:09 p.m. EST.

     The STS-67 mission will be commanded by Stephen S. 
Oswald.  William G. Gregory will serve as pilot.  The three 
STS-67 mission specialists aboard Endeavour will include 
John M. Grunsfeld, Wendy B. Lawrence and Tamara E. Jernigan.  
Rounding out the STS-67 crew will be two payload specialists 
who flew on ASTRO-1 during the STS-35 mission in December 
1990 -- Samuel Durrance and Ronald Parise.

    STS-67 will be the 8th flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour 
and the 68th flight of the Space Shuttle system.

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