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He also writes about a 1983 space-shuttle mission “meant to deliver the first Spacelab laboratory module.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Indeed, the track sounds like a curio from the era of Spacelab, the moody, spacious Kraftwerk track released nine years later.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2020
Two years later he became the first person to fly six space missions when he commanded Columbia on the first Spacelab mission.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2018
His sixth and final flight came in November 1983, when he commanded Columbia on the STS-9 mission, which tested out a variety of scientific experiments with the Spacelab module.
From The Verge ● Jan. 6, 2018
He became the first person to fly six space missions in 1983, when he commanded Columbia on the first Spacelab trek, with the crew performing more than 70 scientific experiments.
From Reuters ● Jan. 6, 2018
Since then, the program has had a list of achievements, including the construction of the International Space Station, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope and several spacelab missions.
From Fox News ● Jan. 2, 2022
Western scientists cited the attractions to biologists and engineers of spacelab experiments in utter vacuum and weightlessness.
From Time Magazine Archive
As part of the first complete crew change aboard the spacelab, three cosmonauts docked their Soyuz TM-4 craft with Mir, which had been occupied by a team of two since March 14, 1986.
From Time Magazine Archive
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