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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.
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.
[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).
St. Ermin's Hotel in St James's Park, London, was originally a horse-shoe shaped mansion block built in 1887–1889 to the designs of Edwin T. Hall (1851–1923). [5] Mansion blocks (high-status, serviced apartments) were first seen in Victoria Street, London, in the 1850s and remain a feature of the area today. St Ermin's Mansions was typical ...
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.
STS-51-B completed 110 orbits of Earth at an altitude of 190 nautical miles. [2] Overmyer aiming a camera out of an overhead window of Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-51-B mission. In 1986, Overmyer was involved in the recovery of the Challenger disaster crew remains and was also one of NASA's lead investigators into the incident. [3] [4]
He was born in Knightsbridge in Middlesex, the son of the architect William Fuller Pocock (1779–1849) and his wife Fanny née Willmer. [1] In 1865 he stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in the 1865 General Election in Guildford in Surrey and unsuccessfully again as the Liberal candidate against Conservative Richard Garth in the 1866 ...