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STS 5 - Wanborough Manor, Puttenham, Guildford, Surrey - initially the Preliminary School for F (French) Section, later (from June 1943) holding depot for Dutch agents and training of German Army PoWs as BONZOs. STS 6 - West Court, Finchampstead, Wokingham, Berkshire
STS-5 was the fifth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on November 11, 1982, and landed five days later on November 16, 1982. STS-5 was the first Space Shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit, and the first officially "operational" Space Shuttle mission.
[1] [2] [3] Puttenham was one of the third series of Ham-class ships, with an all-wooden hull, slightly larger than the first two series. [ 4 ] The ship was 107 feet 5 inches (32.74 m) long overall and 100 feet 0 inches (30.48 m) between perpendiculars , with a beam of 21 feet 11 inches (6.68 m) and a draught of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m).
William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams (born William Charles Frederick Grover, 16 January 1903 – 18 March 1945 (or shortly thereafter)), [1] [2] [3] also known as "W Williams", was a British Grand Prix motor racing driver. He is best known for winning the first Monaco Grand Prix. [4] [5]
The Shuttle Ejection Escape Suit was used from STS-1 (1981) to STS-4 (1982) by a two-man crew used in conjunction with Space Shuttle Columbia's ejection seats. It allowed ejections up to Mach 2.7 and 24.4 km (80,000 ft). [1] The suit was manufactured by the David Clark Company of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Denise Madeleine Bloch (French pronunciation: [dəniz blɔʃ] ⓘ; 21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was a French citizen who worked as an agent with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War.
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In 1976, he was assigned to the Space Shuttle program and flew as pilot on STS-5 in 1982 and as commander on STS-51-B in 1985. He was selected as a lead investigator into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, retiring from NASA that same year. A decade later, Overmyer died while testing the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt aircraft.