Robert Allan Ridley Parker is an American physicist and astronomer, former director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-9 and STS-35.
Robert A. Parker
Parker points instruments on ASTRO-1 on Columbia's aft flight deck during STS-35
STS-9 was the ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the sixth mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Launched on 28 November 1983, the ten-day mission carried the first Spacelab laboratory module into orbit.
View of Columbia's payload bay, showing Spacelab.
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STS-9 launches from Kennedy Space Center, on 28 November 1983.