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Paul Vigna | pvigna@pennlive.com, The Patriot-News
Tue, 10/24/2017 - 6:12pm

Commander of first flight of space shuttle Challenger, a Penn State alumnus, dies

Paul Weitz served as command module pilot on the first crew of the orbiting space laboratory known as Skylab during a 28-day mission in 1973.