Mark Hess

Headquarters, Washington, D.C. March 9, 1990

(Phone: 202/453-4164) Noon EST

Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
(Phone: 202/453-8536)

RELEASE: 90-37

NASA REVISES SPACE SHUTTLE MANIFEST

NASA has revised its January 1990 Space Shuttle Manifest,

changing the planned launch dates for several NASA, international
and Department of Defense (DOD) payloads.

Most of the changes to the manifest were a result of

advancing the DOD's mixed cargo flight -- the Infrared Background
Signature Survey/Air Force Program-675/Space Test
Program/Multi-Purpose Experiment Canister (STS-51) -- from
January 1992 to January 1991. The mission will be renamed
STS-39. The payload previously in the January 1991 slot,
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-E (STS-43), has been moved to
May 1991.

STS-46, a NASA mixed cargo mission including the first

flight of the NASA/Italian Space Agency's Tethered Satellite
System, the European Space Agency's European Retrievable Carrier,
the Evaluation of Oxygen Interaction with Materials and the
Two-Phased Experiment Mounting Plate, was moved from May 1991 to
September 1991. DOD's STARLAB mission, scheduled for September
1991, has been delayed to January 1992.

Other manifest changes include the addition of the Shuttle

Solar Backscatter Ultra-Violet Instrument payload (SSBUV) to both
the Ulysses and TDRS-E missions. SSBUV has been removed from
STS-37, scheduled for November 1, 1990, aboard Atlantis, which
will deploy the Gamma Ray Observatory into orbit. Also, the
Space Radar Laboratory series of missions has been delayed about
one year.

Additional changes to the Mixed Fleet Manifest beyond the

January 1992 launch of STARLAB are under review. NASA plans to
issue a new manifest in June.
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