MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-67 Status Report #16

Friday, March 10, 1995; 8 a.m. CST

Endeavour sailed into the second half of its mission with no problems
hampering science gathering in support of the second astronomy
mission.

Three of the seven astronauts -- Tammy Jernigan, Wendy Lawrence and
Sam Durrance -- are on duty aboard the orbiter managing data gathering
with the cluster of telescopes mounted in the payload bay.  

The remaining four astronauts -- Steve Oswald, Bill Gregory, John
Grunsfeld and Ron Parise -- will relieve their co-workers at midday.

Lawrence and Durrance spoke with WOR Radio in New York about the
mission and its objectives in an early-morning interview.  Jernigan
later answered a couple of Internet questions forwarded to the crew
for response.

Endeavour's present altitude is 190 nautical miles meaning the Shuttle
is circling the Earth every 91 minutes.

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