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Conference 7.286::space

Title:	Space Exploration
Notice:	Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:	PRAGMA::GRIFFIN

Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	974
Total number of notes:	18843

679.0. "12 people in orbit at once." by 19548::YANKES () Sun Dec 02 1990 15:31

    
    	I heard on the news this afternoon that a new world's record (sort
    of the wrong phrase, I guess... :-) has been set concerning the number
    of people in space at once -- 12.  7 on the Shuttle launched yesterday, 3
    people on a Soviet craft launched this morning and the 2 that were
    previously in their space station.
    
    	Its close to being a population explosion.  ;-)
    
    							-craig

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
679.1		PAXVAX::MAIEWSKI		`Mon Dec 03 1990 00:23`	3
	Anyone know what the old record was? George
679.2	Apollo-Soyuz?	2319::SAUTER	John Sauter	`Mon Dec 03 1990 07:27`	5
	re: .1 I don't know, but in the chatter over the "new record" there was reference to Apollo-Soyuz, so that may have been it. John Sauter
679.3	ex	LANDO::STONE		`Mon Dec 03 1990 08:14`	1
	I believe it was 9 in 1985: 5 in Challenger, 4 in Mir.
679.4		19458::FISHER	I like my species the way it is" "A narrow view...	`Mon Dec 03 1990 12:51`	7
	I seriously doubt that ASTP was the surviving record-holder. In fact, I would almost think that the record was likely 9 from many shuttle flights. 7-person shuttle flights were quite common pre-Challenger, and MIR regularly had 2, if not 3. Burns
679.5	Eight is Enough!	58453::SKLEIN	Nulli Secundus	`Mon Dec 03 1990 13:11`	5
	During mission 61A, 30 Oct - 6 Nov, 8 people were in Challenger. I do not know if any cosmonauts were up at the time, but that is probably the closest. Susan
679.6	Multiple manned launches in the same day	30086::REITH	Jim Reith DTN 226-6102 - LTN2-1/F02	`Tue Dec 04 1990 09:46`	2
	The reference to Apollo/Soyus was that this was only the third time there had been a US and Soviet manned launch on the same day.