CREW MEMBERS NAMED TO LIFE SCIENCE MISSION

Mon, 12 Aug 1996 23:10:01 -0400
Source: (NASA HQ Public Affairs Office)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:15:32 -0400
From: NASANews@luna.osf.hq.nasa.gov (NASA HQ Public Affairs Office)
To: press-release-com@venus.hq.nasa.gov
Subject: Crew Members Named to Life Science Mission
Sender: owner-press-release@venus.hq.nasa.gov

Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, DC August 12, 1996
(Phone: 202/358-1778)

Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 713/483-5111)

RELEASE: 96-163

CREW MEMBERS NAMED TO LIFE SCIENCE MISSION

Two mission specialists have been named to a 16-day Space Shuttle mission dedicated to gather information on how humans and animals adapt to space and the ability of humans to survive in a microgravity environment for an extended period of time.

Astronauts Richard M. Linnehan, DVM, and Dafydd (Dave) Rhys Williams, MD, (Canadian Space Agency) are the first crew members named to support the STS-90 Neurolab mission, scheduled for launch in March 1998. The remaining crew members will be named at a later date.

Linnehan flew previously on Columbia's record setting 17-day Life and Microgravity Science mission in June-July 1996. Williams will be making his first flight into space.

Investigations during the Neurolab mission will focus on the effects of microgravity on the nervous system. Specifically, experiments will study the adaptation of the vestibular system and space adaptation syndrome, the adaptation of the central nervous system and the pathways which control the ability to sense location in the absence of gravity, and the effect of microgravity on a developing nervous system.

For complete biographical information on Linnehan and Williams, or any astronaut, see the NASA Internet biography home page at URL:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/

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