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DAVID WALKER, THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT WHO LAUNCHED ''MAGELLANO'' IN 1989, HAS DIED
WASHINGTON, USA, The American ex-astronaut, David Walker, who performed four space shuttle missions, one of which launched "Magellano", in 1989, mapping Venus' surface, died. Walker was 56 and had cancer. The astronaut was employed by NASA in 1978, to direct shuttle's missions. After the first mission, in 1984, in which he piloted the space shuttle, he became the commander of the missions operated...
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 11592
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency