That four digit combination, that I would have used to open the cypher lock on the door except that it was already open, and that the security spoke out loud to me and that I understood I had already written down from an earlier telephone call, was '7174' and I saw that clearly in the dream.
From 11/2/1965 To 6/24/1985 ( United States Discovery space shuttle STS-51-G orbiter vehicle mission returns to the planet Earth from orbit of the planet Earth ) is 7174 days
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STS-51-G
Launch date 17 June 1985, 11:33:00 UTC
Landing 24 June 1985, 13:11:52 UTC
Mission duration 7d/01:38:52
STS 51-G was the eighteenth flight of a space shuttle, and the fifth flight of Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 17 June 1985. Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was on board as a payload specialist.
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List of space shuttle missions
This is a tabular list of missions flown by space shuttles, including unmanned and manned test flights and launches, planned flights and potential or unflown rescue missions. Information displayed in the tables includes flight order, mission designation, launch date, length of mission, shuttle used, number of crew members (launched/landed) and landing site.
Launches and orbital flights
No. Launch Date Mission Shuttle Crew Duration Docked with Landing Site
17 April 29, 1985 STS-51-B Challenger 7 07d 00h Edwards Spacelab mission
18 June 17, 1985 STS-51-G Discovery 7 07d 01h Edwards Multiple comsat deployments. Flight of first member of royalty, Saudi, Muslim, and Arab in space, Sultan Salman Al Saud.
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Shannon Lucid
NASA Astronaut
Nationality American
Status Inactive
Born January 14, 1943
Shanghai, China
Other occupation Biochemist
Time in space 223d 02h 50m
Selection 1978 NASA Group
Missions STS-51-G, STS-34, STS-43, STS-58, STS-76, Mir NASA-1, STS-79
Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and a NASA astronaut. At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American, as well as by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Mir space station.
Lucid was born in Shanghai, China, to Baptist missionary parents Oscar and Myrtle Wells, but grew up in Bethany, Oklahoma and graduated from Bethany High School. She attended the University of Oklahoma and obtained a Ph.D. in biochemistry from that school in 1973.
Lucid was selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1978. Of the six women in this first class with female astronauts, Lucid was the only one who was a mother at the time of being hired.
Lucid's first space flight was in June 1985 on Space Shuttle Discovery's mission STS-51-G.
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Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
Payload Specialist
Nationality Saudi
Born June 27, 1956
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Other occupation Fighter pilot
Rank Colonel, Royal Saudi Air Force
Time in space 7d 01h 38m
Missions STS-51-G
Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is a former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the STS-51-G Space Shuttle mission as a Payload Specialist. He is a grandson of King Ibn Saud and is the only Saudi citizen to travel in space. He was also the first Arab, the first Muslim, and the first member of royalty in space.
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NASA Astronaut Group 8
NASA's Astronaut Group 8 was the first selection in nine years of astronaut candidates since Group 7 in August 1969. Due to the long delay between the last Apollo mission and the first flight of the Space Shuttle in 1981, few astronauts from the older groups stayed with NASA. Thus in January 1978 a new group of 35 astronauts, including NASA's first female astronauts was selected. Since then, a new group of candidates has been selected roughly every two years.
In Astronaut Group 8, two different astronaut groups were formed: pilots and mission specialists. (With shuttle classes, NASA stopped sending non-pilots for one year of UPT.) Of the 35 selected, six were women, three were male African Americans, and one was a male Asian American. Within this group a sizable number of American spaceflight firsts were achieved:
First American woman in space: Sally Ride (June 18, 1983, STS-7)
First African American in space: Guion Bluford (August 30, 1983, STS-8)
First American woman to perform an EVA: Kathryn Sullivan (October 11, 1984, STS-41-G)
First mother in space: Anna Fisher (November 8, 1984, STS-51A)
First Asian American in space: Ellison Onizuka (January 24, 1985, STS-51-C)
First American to launch on a Russian rocket: Norman Thagard (March 14, 1995, Soyuz TM-21)
First American woman to make a long-duration spaceflight: Shannon Lucid (March to September 1996, Mir NASA-1)
First American active duty astronauts to marry: Robert Gibson and Rhea Seddon
First mother to be hired as an astronaut: Shannon Lucid
First Army astronaut: Bob Stewart
NASA Astronaut Group 8, "TFNG (Thirty-Five New Guys)", 1978
Pilots Daniel Brandenstein · Michael Coats · Richard Covey · John Creighton · Robert Gibson · Frederick D. Gregory · Frederick Hauck · Jon McBride · Steven Nagel · Francis "Dick" Scobee · Brewster Shaw · Loren Shriver · David Walker · Donald Williams
Mission specialists Guion Bluford · James Buchli · John Fabian · Anna Fisher · Dale Gardner · S. David Griggs · Terry Hart · Steven Hawley · Jeffrey Hoffman · Shannon Lucid · Ronald McNair · Richard Mullane · George Nelson · Ellison Onizuka · Judith Resnik · Sally Ride · Rhea Seddon · Robert Stewart · Kathryn Sullivan · Norman Thagard · James van Hoften
