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STS-6 PRESS INFORMATION March 1983 oR Rockwell International Space Transportation & Systems Group Office of Public Relations CONTENTS STS-6 MISSION STATISTICS . : FLIGHT TEST AND MISSION OBJECTIVES. CHALLENGER (OV-099) CONFIGURATION CHANGES FROM COLUMBIA (OV-102) STS-6 SPACE SHUTTLE ELEMENT WEIGHT AND PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCES FROM THAT OF STS-5 INERTIAL UPPER STAGE (1US)-2 TRACKING AND DATA RELAY SATELLITE SYSTEM (TDRSS). EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY /EXTRAVEHICULAR MOBILITY UNIT (EVA/EMU) EXPERIMENTS. MONODISPERSE LATEX REACTOR (MLR). CONTINUOUS FLOW ELECTROPHORESIS SYSTEM (CFES) NIGHT/DAY OPTICAL SURVEY OF LIGHTNING (NOSL) . GETAWAY SPECIAL (GAS) . PERSONAL EGRESS AIR PACKS (PEAP) HEAD-UP DISPLAY (HUD) a. MODULAR AUXILIARY DATA SYSTEM (MADS) AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENT PACKAGE (ACIP). MODIFICATIONS TO COLUMBIA FOR STS-9 SPACELAB-MISSION STS-5 MISSION SUMMARY . STS-5 MISSION FACTS . STS-STIMELINE . . . STS-6 FLIGHT CREW. : STS-7FLIGHTCREW .. PAGE 10 19 33 48 48 50 54 56 62 64 67 B 15 9 82 82 85

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