Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S) (59 page)

Pailes, William,
229

PALAPA
-
B
2 satellite,
173
,
188–95
,
195

Parker, Bob,
196
,
198
,
200
,
204

Payload Assist Module-D (
PAM
-
D
) rocket motors,
173

payload bay, location of,
3
,
4

payload specialists,
230–57

Payton, Gary,
222
,
223

Pessin, Myron “Mike,”
31

Peterson, Don,
36–37
,
40–43
,
52
,
149–55
,
214–15

polar orbit missions,
24–26
,
279–82

Puddy, Donald R.,
91
,
112
,
120
,
310

Purdue University,
57–58

Ragsdale, Al,
38

Rapp, Rita,
268–69

Reagan, Ronald,
109
,
113
,
121–22
,
123
,
140–41
,
164
,
204
,
266
,
305

Redstone rocket booster,
94

redundant systems,
33–34
,
40–43

reentry and landing, typical,
13–16

remote manipulator arm,
47–50
,
75–77
,
121
,
129
,
156
,
161–62

Resnik, Judith,
77
,
182
;
STS
-41
D
and,
230
,
235
,
242
,
243
,
244
;
STS
-51
L
and,
286
,
287
,
295
,
297
; in
TFNG
class,
68

reusable carbon-carbon (
RCC
),
90–91

Ride, Sally: application of, for astronaut position,
56–57
,
70
; remote manipulator arm and,
75
,
76
,
161
;
STS
-2 and,
121
;
STS
-7 and,
156–61
,
158
,
163–65
;
STS
-41
G
and,
181–85
;
STS
-51
L
and,
295
,
305–6
;
STS
-61
M
and,
308
; in
TFNG
class,
67–68
,
68

Rockwell International,
292

Rogers, William,
305

Rogers Commission,
300
,
305–6
,
310

Rose, Jim,
232

Ross, Jerry: launch experience of,
4
,
7
,
9–10
;
STS
-41
B
and,
172–73
;
STS
-41
G
and,
187
;
STS
-51
L
and,
314–15
;
STS
-61
B
and,
264–68
,
266
,
270–71
,
280
;
STS
-62
A
and,
279
,
280–81

Russia,
144–45
,
183
,
203

Salma Al-Saud, Prince,
254–56
,
260

SATCOM
KU
-
I
satellite,
271
,
275

satellite deployment:
STS
-5 and,
142
,
145
;
STS
-6 and,
150–51
,
151
;
STS
-7 and,
156
,
161–62
;
STS
-41
B
and,
173
;
STS
-41
C
and,
174
,
179
;
STS
-51
C
and,
223
;
STS
-51
D
and,
249–51
;
STS
-51
G
and,
254–57
;
STS
-51
I
and,
262

satellite retrieval and repair:
STS
-41
C
and,
174
,
175–79
,
177
;
STS
-51
A
and,
188–95
,
195
;
STS
-51
I
and,
258–59
,
263–64

Saturn rockets,
8
,
54
,
94–95
,
135
,
201

Schmitt, Harrison “Jack,”
116
,
143

science flights,
196–221

scientist-astronauts,
71

Scobee, Dick,
100–101
,
173
,
174
,
286
,
287
,
293
,
294
,
295
,
298–99

Scobee, June,
294
,
299

Scully-Power, Paul,
181

Seddon, Rhea,
68
,
246
,
248
,
250

Shaffer, Phil,
32

Shaw, Brewster,
72
,
74
,
196
,
200–202
,
204–7
,
264
,
267

Shepard, Alan,
4

Shriver, Loren,
64–65
,
103–4
,
222
,
223
,
225
,
227
,
228

Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (
SAIL
),
72
,
102

Shuttle Imaging Radar B,
182
,
183

Shuttle Motion Simulator (
SMS
),
77–79

Shuttle Training Aircraft (
STA
),
79–80

simulators,
8
,
105–6
.
See also
training

Skylab missions,
22
,
25
,
32
,
47
,
71
,
143
,
222
,
265
; Bob Crippen and,
98
,
99
,
108–9
; Joe Engle and,
116
; Saturn rockets and,
8
,
266
; science and,
196–97
,
199
;
STS
-3 and,
127