Augusta Georgia: sts83 @ugusta: Headlines for 3/30/97

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View from the Pilot's Seat in Quicktime VR
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Meet the crew of Shuttle mission STS-83 (Quicktime Movie, from NASA)

Emergency Training (Quicktime Movie, 1MB, from NASA)

M-113 Egress Training (Quicktime Movie, 1MB, from NASA)

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)

On the Web

Susan Still's biography

NASA information on the mission

NASA launch dates and countdown

All about the Microgravity Science Laboratory

Still's mission will include 33 science projects
Web-posted 3/30/97
Compared with the high-profile space missions to repair the Hubble telescope and the Mir space station dockings, 16 days of microgravity science seems as dull as, well, watching crystals grow.

Lost in space
Web-posted 3/22/97
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Everywhere you look in this coastal area, there's a testament to America's space program.

Readers can sign a good luck card for astronaut
Web-posted 3/21/97
Readers may send good wishes to the astronauts and make a donation to Fort Discovery at the same time.

NASA picks April 3 for shuttle liftoff
Web-posted 3/20/97
NASA managers cleared the space shuttle Columbia for liftoff in two weeks, sticking with a date that has been on their calendars for more than a month.

Astronaut excited about spaceflight
Web-posted 3/18/97
When she donned her orange spacesuit Friday for a mock countdown aboard the shuttle Columbia, Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still felt the first tinges of nervousness and anticipation about her impending spaceflight.

Women prove to have the `Right Stuff'
Picture story from the Cape
Web-posted 3/16/97
As the nation's second female shuttle pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still is one of NASA's most celebrated astronauts. But initially women weren't considered worthy for the job.

Still leads launch test
Web-posted 3/15/97
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still and the other astronauts for mission STS-83 donned their orange spacesuits and boarded the shuttle Columbia Friday for a mock countdown, a dress rehearsal for their April 3 launch.
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Shuttle pilot's training began in eighth grade
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 compliment a teacher can get: A former student said she changed her life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.