You're not dreaming (Was: Um, was there a...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

31 Oct 2003

Sellam wrote:

...
 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Vohs wrote:
 One even flew on the space shuttle! I suppose this
was before they changed 
to GRiDs. Can anyone confirm? As far as I know, the GRiD Compass went up on the
first Shuttle flight. Or 
at least, I'm certain it went up before an Attache did, since the Attache 
wasn't produced until well after the GRiD was around. One site puts the 
Attache at 1984, which sounds appropriate. -- Sellam Ismail 

My copy of the FAUG Newsletter 5#2 of Summer 1985 said that astronaut Ronald 
Parise was scheduled to take his Otrona Attache on a shuttle flight on March 
6, 1986.

However, checking Parise's NASA bio, he did not get into space until 1990, 
so I doubt that the Otrona went with him then.

I hadn't read the piece closely before, and thought the it was a report of a 
past flight, not a future one. So, it remains unconfirmed, and unlikely, 
that an Otrona Attache went up on a shuttle filght.

Bob

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