Bobko was the only NASA astronaut to fly on the first launch of two space shuttle orbiters.
protection. It does everything. So it's kind of like launching a small satellite, except it's got a man in it," Bobko said.
Not everything went as well during the five-day mission. The orbiter's guidance computer went offline. "Jake was a great person. He had more flying time than I did. He knew what it was to be a crew member," said Bobko."So, for a [payload] specialist, he was a great [payload] specialist. His only problem was that he got very sick on orbit.", resulting in the first unplanned spacewalk in U.S. history.
"We had to send two guys [Jeffrey Hoffman and David Griggs] EVA, which was an unplanned EVA for that flight, but I had been the one who had sent Story and Don EVA earlier, so I didn't have anybody else learn that skill since we didn't have a scheduled EVA. So I was the one who sent the crew members EVA," he said."They strapped a thing that looked like a fly swatter on the end of the big [robotic] arm, which we hadn't planned to use.
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