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| | NASA - ROMINGER TO REPLACE ASHBY AS STS-85 PILOT |
 | | Astronaut Jeffrey S. Ashby (Cmdr., USN), has been replaced as pilot for the STS-85 crew by astronaut Kent Rominger (Cmdr., USN), a two-time Shuttle pilot. |
 | | Ashby, who will be reassigned to a later flight, has been named as an assistant to the Director, Flight Crew Operations. |
 | | Rominger will join Commander Curt Brown, Payload Commander Jan Davis, Mission Specialists Robert Curbeam, Jr., and Stephen Robinson, and Payload Specialist Bjarni Tryggvason, on an 11-day mission in July aboard Discovery to study changes in the Earth's atmosphere. |
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