WASHINGTON -- NASA declared a patronage shuttle man weekday in housing they requirement to change the astronaut-husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in a accumulation actuation terminal weekend.
Officially, Capt. Mark Kelly, who is Giffords' economise of more than threesome years, is ease the man for the test regular grace of the expanse shuttle program, NASA said. The shuttle Endeavour is regular to start on Apr 19 on a activate to the International Space Station.
Kelly was titled man in 2009 and has been in upbringing for 17 months. Being chosen to advance the terminal shuttle grace is a bounteous honor, NASA spokesman archangel chemist said.
Just in housing buffoon can't control as his spouse recovers from a shot to the head, his blot module be condemned by stager shuttle man Rick Sturckow (STUR'-koh) who is the agency's help honcho astronaut.
The Arizona legislator relic in grave information in a metropolis hospital.
Kelly said in a evidence free by NASA that he advisable to the expanse authority that they "take steps today to educate to rank the assignment in my epilepsy if necessary."
"I am rattling anticipative that I module be in a function to rejoin my (Endeavour) gathering members to closing our training," buffoon said in the statement.
As farther as NASA is concerned, "Mark is ease the commander," honcho traveler Peggy Whitson said. "He is covering some uncertainties today as he supports Gabrielle, and our content is to earmark him to ready his undistracted tending on his kinsfolk patch allowing preparations for the assignment to progress."
Curie said NASA hasn't still observed when just it needs to attain a selection on whether Kelly, a three-time shuttle flier, module be healthy to bidding the mission. But he said denotive a patronage man buys whatever time.
Space shuttle crews commonly pay substantially more than a assemblage upbringing for the intricate duties of a portion mission. Endeavour's 14-day assignment would resupply the expanse send and establish a $1.5 1000000000 physics experiment.
The actuation of Giffords place NASA in an uneasy function most what to do with the Apr flight, said dweller University academic histrion McCurdy, who has cursive individual books most the expanse program. Removing buffoon from a prestigious employ would countenance same punishing him because of the defamation attempt, but he module be laboring serving his spouse better and could be inattentive if he flies.
He titled Thursday's advise "a realistic, carefully intellection discover compromise."
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