Dale Gardner
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Dale Allan Gardner was a NASA astronaut, and naval flight officer who flew two Space Shuttle missions during the mid 1980s.
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View of Dale Gardner, completely untethered from the shuttle, retrieves an errant Westar 6 satellite during STS-51-A
Gardner holds up a "For Sale" sign after Palapa B-2 and WESTAR VI were recovered
STS-8
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STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch
Dale Gardner
…up to the first flight in April 1981. He then served as a Support Crew Astronaut for the fourth flight (STS-4). He flew as a mission specialist on STS-8 (August 30 to September 5, 1983) and STS-51-A (November 8–16, 1984). Gardner logged a total of 337 hours in space and 225 orbits of the Earth on these…
INSAT-1B is deployed from Space Shuttle Challenger
From left: Brandenstein, Gardner, Truly, Thornton and Bluford.Space Shuttle program← STS-7STS-9 →
INSAT-1B being prepared in a processing facility.
Challenger's rollout from the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to be stacked for launch.