John Fabian, a 1962 graduate from Washington State University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, earned a master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (1964) and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington (1972). After serving as a member of the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy, he joined NASA's space shuttle program in 1978. He made his first space flight in 1983 as a member of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew (mission STS-7, June 18-24, 1983).
This collection consists of a single item: a 46 page NASA space shuttle mission checklist, officially called the "PAM deploy c/l, checklist, 1983", published by the GPO (1983-669-013/1312), and used for the Challenger Space Shuttle Mission of June 18-24, 1983 (STS-7). It was used by American astronauts Sally Ride and John Fabian to deploy the Anik and Palapa telecommunications satellites for Canada and Indonesia respectively. It is a 3-ring binder divided into several sections. Many pages include marks and annotations made by the astronauts during the mission. The cover is inscribed by Fabian: "This checklist was carried & used by me during the Challenger Space Shuttle Mission of June 18-24, 1983."
This collection is open and available for research use.
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John Fabian's Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-7 checklist, 1983 (Cage 4806)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
John Fabian donated this item to the Washington State University Libraries in 1985.
John Fabian Letter to Richard Fry, Pullman, 1983
A large quantity of clippings, photographs, and supporting materials regarding Fabian
and his flights can be found in the WSU News Subject Files, 1940-2011
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