The Nation - News from July 23, 1985
Two space-walking mechanics will perform electrical “bypass surgery” next month to save a costly satellite, shuttle flight commander Joe Engle said at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Engle, co-pilot Richard Covey and James van Hoften, William Fisher and Mike Lounge are to take off on the shuttle Discovery Aug. 24 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After launching three communications satellites, Discovery’s astronauts will rendezvous with the ailing Syncom relay station to repair it, and to begin one of the most daring space walks ever.
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