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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At 1:30 a.m. EST the morning of the scheduled launch of Space Shuttle Mission STS-30 aboard Atlantis, astronaut Charles Bolden receives a call from the Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle. The Vice President called from the NASA tracking station in Australia while visiting the facility. STS-30 will launch the Magellan_Venus radar mapper spacecraft on a 15-month journey to Venus. This is the first U.S. planetary mission in 11 years and the first on Shuttle.
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89PC-0509
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April 28, 1989
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