The five astronauts who will fly America’s...
The five astronauts who will fly America’s first military man-in-space mission arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but although the countdown was set to start at 4 a.m. today, the exact shuttle launch time Wednesday afternoon remained a military secret. The astronauts, all military officers, skipped the usual arrival statements to reporters after flying from their training base in at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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