Clindamycin is also an alternative antibiotic if you are allergic to penicillin. Tooth abscess antibiotics are also used in other areas of general medicine. They just happen to be particularly effective against the bacteria that commonly cause dental infections.
STS-1 Launch. NASA's first Space Shuttle, with an Orbiter named Columbia (Orbiter Vehicle 102), was finally ready for launch on April 10, 1981. The Commander was John Young, the most experienced astronaut, and the Pilot was Robert L. Crippen.
Dr. McNair was assigned as a mission specialist on STS 51-L. Dr. McNair died on January 28, 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, also taking the lives of the spacecraft commander, Mr. F.R. Scobee, the pilot, Commander M.J. Smith (USN), mission specialists, Lieutenant Colonel E.S. Onizuka (USAF), and Dr. J.A. Resnik, and two civilian payload specialists, Mr. G.B. Jarvis and Mrs. S. C. McAuliffe.