Jim Cast/Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                       September 8, 
1993
(Phone:  202/358-1778)

Barbara Schwartz
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone:  713/483-5111)


RELEASE:  93-161

CREW MEMBERS SELECTED FOR STS-63 SHUTTLE SPACEHAB-3 FLIGHT 

     USN Commander James D. Wetherbee will command the STS-63 
mission aboard Discovery in mid-1994.  Other crew members are USAF 
Major Eileen M. Collins as Pilot and mission specialists C. 
Michael Foale, Ph.D.; Janice E. Voss, Ph.D.; Bernard A. Harris, 
Jr., M.D.; and Russian Air Force Colonel Vladimir G. Titov.

     The STS-63 mission centers on the flight of Spacehab-3 and 
Spartan-201.  Spacehab is a commercially-owned pressurized module 
for human-tended experiments.  

     Spartan-201, the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for 
Astronomy, is a free-flying retrievable platform with two 
telescopes to study the solar wind, a continuous stream of 
electrons, heavy protons and heavy ions ejected from the sun and 
traveling through space at speeds of almost 1 million miles per 
hour.  The solar wind frequently causes problems on Earth by 
disrupting navigation, communications and electrical power.

     Wetherbee, 40, commanded STS-52, a 10-day mission that 
deployed the Laser Geodynamic Satellite, operated the first U.S. 
Microgravity Payload with French and American experiments and 
tested the Canadian-built Space Vision System aboard Columbia in 
October 1992.  

     He also was pilot on STS-32 aboard Columbia in January 1990, 
a mission that deployed the Syncom IV-F5 satellite and retrieved 
the Long Duration Exposure Facility.  Wetherbee was born in 
Flushing, N.Y., and received a bachelor of science degree in 
aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1974.

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     Collins, 36, is the first female to serve as a pilot on a 
Space Shuttle mission.  She was born in Elmira, N.Y., and received 
a master of science degree in operations research from Stanford 
University in 1986 and a master of arts degree in space systems 
management from Webster University in 1989.

     Foale, 36, was a mission specialist on STS-45, the first 
ATLAS flight, in March 1992 and on STS-56 in April 1993, which 
carried ATLAS-2 and the SPARTAN retrievable satellite.  Foale was 
born in Louth, England, but considers Cambridge his hometown.  He 
received his doctorate in laboratory astrophysics from Cambridge 
University in 1982.

     Voss, 36, was a mission specialist on STS-57 in June 1993, on 
which the first SPACEHAB commercial middeck augmentation module 
was flown and the European Retrievable Carrier satellite was 
retrieved.  

     Voss was born in South Bend, Ind., but considers Rockford, 
Ill., her hometown.  She received a doctorate in 
aeronautics/astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology in 1987 and has done additional graduate work in space 
physics at Rice University.

     Harris, 37, was a mission specialist on the STS-55 Spacelab 
D-2, dedicated to German scientific experiments, in April 1993.  
Harris was born in Temple, Texas.  He received his doctorate in 
medicine from Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 1982, 
completing his residency in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic 
in 1985.  He trained as a flight surgeon at the Aerospace School 
of Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, in 1988.

     Titov, 46, was born in Sretensk, in the Chita Region of 
Russia and graduated from the Higher Air Force College in 
Chernigov in the Ukraine in 1970 and the Yuri Gagarin Air Force 
Academy in 1987.  

     Titov commanded Soyuz T-8 in April 1983, a mission to dock 
with and repair the faulty Salyut 7 solar array.  The mission was 
aborted after 2 days to avoid a crash when the rendezvous closing 
rate was determined to be too fast.  

   Titov commanded Soyuz TM-4, launched in December 1987, which 
docked with the orbiting Mir 1 space station.  Titov spent 365 
days, 22 hours, 39 minutes in space, setting a long-duration world 
record.  He also performed two spacewalks during his mission.  
Titov was selected in October 1992 as one of two cosmonauts to 
train for Space Shuttle missions.

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