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Clarens William (Bill) Nelson American Payload Specialist Astronaut. Born 29 September 1942.

Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Miami, Florida, USA.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Payload Specialist. Inactive Entered space service: 1 September 1985. Left space service: 18 January 1986. Number of Flights: 1.00. Total Time: 6.09 days.

Nelson Bill Spaceflight Log

  • 12 January 1986 Flight: STS-61-C. Flight Up: STS-61-C. Flight Back: STS-61-C. Flight Time: 6.09 days.
Nelson Bill Chronology

12 January 1986 - STS-61-C. Manned seven crew. Launched Satcom K1. Payloads: Deploy SATCOM (RCA-Satellite Communi-cations) Ku-1 with Payload Assist Module (PAM)-D II. Materials Science Laboratory, Comet Halley Active Monitoring Experiment (CHAMP), Hitchhiker (HH) Goddard (G)-1, thirteen getaway specials (GAS), student experiment, Initial Blood Storage Equipment (lBSE), Characterization of Space Motion Sickness (SMS).

18 January 1986 - Landing of STS-61-C. STS-61-C landed at 13:59 GMT.
STS-61-C
Representative Bill Nelson prepares to eat a peeled grapefruit...
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