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Pictory story of Susuan Still, Augusta's astronaut
Fly inside the Shuttle's payload bay (Quicktime Movie, 3 sec, 350k, from NASA)
Look inside the Microgravity Science Lab
(Quicktime Movie, 3.0 sec, 288k, from NASA)

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Susan Still's biography
NASA information on the mission
NASA launch dates and countdown
All about the Microgravity Science Laboratory
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Shuttle pilot's training began in eighth grade
Susan Still picture story
Web-posted 3/14/97
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - As she waited 195 feet in the air on the space shuttle launchpad Thursday for more training instructions, Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still couldn't resist plugging her native Augusta and the city's golf tradition.

Still's teacher: `I'm proud of her'
Web-posted 3/14/97
  She hasn't been in the classroom in more than 20 years, but on Thursday, Sarah Brown received the highest complement a teacher can get: A former student said she changed her life.

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Augustan readies for shuttle flight
Web-posted 3/13/97
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - As Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still sat in the driver's seat of the blazing yellow evacuation tank, several fellow astronauts watched from a nearby knoll.

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Augustan's mission likely to be routine to public
Web-posted 2/22/97
  For Augusta astronaut Susan Still, the April launch of the space shuttle Columbia will be a life-changing experience. It is her first flight to space.

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Shuttle pilot will have to wait
Web-posted 2/3/97
  Mark this on your calendar - in pencil. The launch of the space shuttle Columbia, to be piloted by Augusta native Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still, has been pushed back a week to April 3. The landing is tentatively set for April 19.

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Legendary Augusta aviators taught shuttle pilot to fly
Web-posted 10/19/96
  She was just another girl with a big dream. That's what everyone thought anyway. Twenty years ago, while taking flying lessons at Augusta's Daniel Field from aviator Willis ``Buster'' Boshears, Susan Still told everyone she was going to be an astronaut.

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Augusta native preparing to pilot Space Shuttle
Web-posted 10/8/96
  As a Navy jet pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still is no stranger to thrilling flights, but nothing will prepare her for the ride she plans to take in March as NASA's second female space shuttle pilot.


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