Pailes

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Pailes

William Arthur Pailes Status: Inactive. Trained as: Astronaut. Profession: Manned Spaceflight Engineer. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Birth Date: 26 June 1952. Birth City: Hackensack. Birth State: New Jersey. Birth Country: USA. Nationality: American. Degree: BS, US Air Force Academy, 1974; MS, Computer Science, Texas A&M, 1981. Affiliation: USAF. Group: 1982 DoD Group 2. Date Selected: 01 September 1982. Departed: 1987. Number of Flights: 1. Total Time: 4.07 days. Comments: Selected for STS-51-J in October 1984. Cancelled after Challenger explosion.

Flight Log

STS-51-J - - 1985 Oct 3 - Assignment: Prime Crew. Flight Time: 4.07 days. Flight details: STS-51-J.
Manned five crew. Atlantis (first flight); deployed USA 11, USA 12. Reusable space transportation system.
Orbits of Earth: 63. Landed at: Runway 23 dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, . Touchdown miss distance: 754.00 m. Landing Rollout: 2,455.00 m. Payloads: Classified DoD Mission - Record altitude (as of 5/93).

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