71. Veteran shuttle astronauts John Blaha and Shannon Lucid recently began training for a Mir mission next year. 72. We talk to Joe Engle, shuttle astronaut on Columbia and Discovery and Tom Stafford, NASA astronaut on Gemini and Apollo. 73. All the shuttle astronauts jammed into an outer space station compartment to peek inside the orbiting complex and leave behind items for later pickup by the station crew. 74. Also in that first shuttle astronaut class was Dr. M. Rhea Seddon, whom Gibson eventually married. 75. But Endeavour, their ride home, remained on the ground an extra month so that the shuttle astronauts could train to repair the robot arm. 76. Bursch, Carl Walz and their Russian commander, Yuri Onufrienko, welcomed the shuttle astronauts aboard on Wednesday for a weeklong visit. 77. But shuttle astronauts quickly solved the problem. 78. During that time, two teams of shuttle astronauts will take turns going out to hook up the girder to the space station. 79. During the voyage, the six shuttle astronauts tested a giant inflatable foil antenna and a satellite designed to steady itself in space. 80. Four spacewalks will be conducted by the shuttle astronauts, including Jerry Ross and Lee Morin, who will become the first grandfathers to take a spacewalk. |