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operations in space, in addition to accomplishing other experiments. When one of the communications satellites malfunctioned, the first unscheduled spacewalk was made to activate the satellite which required
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810:Group Achievement Awards (6)
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737:Personal life and death
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1415:NASA Astronaut Group 6
869:Spaceflight portal
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279:U.S. Air Force Academy
264:U.S. Air Force officer
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1959:Richard F. Gordon Jr.
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1964:Frederick D. Gregory
1924:Christopher Ferguson
1507:NASA Astronaut Corps
1158:Blakeslee, Sandra. "
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857:Biography portal
808:Johnson Space Center
750:degenerative disease
731:Ames Research Center
596:geosynchronous orbit
592:Inertial Upper Stage
529:US Air Force Academy
518:Kennedy Space Center
374:Vance Air Force Base
360:rating, he attended
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2321:1983 in spaceflight
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2224:Kathryn D. Sullivan
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2129:Scott E. Parazynski
2089:Bruce McCandless II
1934:C. Gordon Fullerton
1839:Franklin Chang-Díaz
1794:Daniel Brandenstein
1440:C. Gordon Fullerton
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486:manned space flight
326:Bachelor of Science
312:, to a family with
183:NASA Group 7 (1969)
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2024:Thomas David Jones
2009:Jeffrey A. Hoffman
1455:Donald H. Peterson
1450:Robert F. Overmyer
1202:The New York Times
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1000:"Trojans in Space"
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