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STS-26 Mission Specialist Ne …
Title STS-26 Mission Specialist Nelson in LES prior to JSC WETF emergency exercises
Description STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, Mission Specialist (MS) George D. Nelson, wearing newly designed (navy blue) launch and entry suit (LES), gets some moral support from Aimee Tess Nelson, his sixteen-year-old lifeguard daughter. Nelson was about to participate in a simulation of escape and rescue operations utilizing the crew escape system (CES) pole mode of egress from the Space Shuttle. Nelson is equipped with the LES partial pressure suit and parachute gear.
Date Taken 1988-07-20
STS-34 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-34 Mission Specialist (MS) Chang-Diaz dons EMU during WETF exercises
Description STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Mission Specialist (MS) Franklin R. Chang-Diaz dons extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) in preparation for an extravehicular activity (EVA) contingency exercise in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. This closeup shows Chang-Diaz straightening his EMU sleeve.
Date Taken 1989-08-24
STS-34 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-34 Mission Specialist (MS) Chang-Diaz tests CCA prior to WETF exercises
Description STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Mission Specialist (MS) Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, wearing extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), tests his communications carrier assembly (CCA) with the help of Rockwell Space Operations (RSO) technician Pam S. Peters (right) prior to donning his EMU helmet. These procedures are necessary for an extravehicular activity (EVA) contingency exercise (underwater simulation) in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Chang-Diaz stands on a platform that will lower him into the WETF's 25 ft deep pool.
Date Taken 1989-08-24
STS-37 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-37 Mission Specialist (MS) Apt prepares for EVA exercise in JSC WETF
Description STS-37 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Mission Specialist (MS) Jerome Apt wearing extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) prepares for extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation exercise in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Apt will rehearse scheduled EVA procedures with the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) during the training session in the WETF's 25-ft deep pool. CETA is a type of railroad hand cart vehicle planned as a spacewalker's transportation system along the truss of Space Station Freedom (SSF). CETA will be in OV-104's payload bay.
Date Taken 1989-09-12
STS-37 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-37 Mission Specialist (MS) Ross prepares for EVA exercise in JSC WETF
Description STS-37 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Mission Specialist (MS) Jerry L. Ross, wearing extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), fastens neck strap on communications carrier assembly (CCA) in preparation for extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation exercise in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Ross will rehearse scheduled EVA procedures with the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) during the training session in the WETF's 25-ft deep pool. CETA is a type of railroad hand cart vehicle planned as a spacewalker's transportation system along the truss of Space Station Freedom (SSF). CETA will be in OV-104's payload bay.
Date Taken 1989-09-12
STS-31 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-31 Mission Specialist (MS) McCandless in EMU prior to JSC WETF simulation
Description STS-31 Mission Specialist (MS) Bruce McCandless II, fully suited in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), stands on platform before it is lifted and lowered into the 25-ft deep pool of JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Once underwater, McCandless will achieve a neutrally buoyant state and will rehearse extravehicular activity (EVA) procedures associated with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) payload. There are no EVAs planned for the flight aboard Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103.
Date Taken 1989-11-15
STS-38 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert C. Springer dons EMU in JSC's WETF
Description STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert C. Springer dons extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) upper torso with technicians' assistance in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Positioned on the WETF platform at pool side, Springer is preparing for an underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation. During the training session, Springer will rehearse contingency EVA procedures for the STS-38 mission aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104.
Date Taken 1990-02-23
STS-38 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert C. Springer dons EMU in JSC's WETF
Description STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert C. Springer, wearing extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), fastens the strap on his communications carrier assembly (CCA) cap during suit donning in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Positioned on the WETF platform at pool side, Springer is preparing for an underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation. During the training exercise, Springer will rehearse contingency EVA procedures for the STS-38 mission aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104.
Date Taken 1990-02-23
STS-38 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Carl J. Meade during EMU donning in JSC's WETF
Description STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Carl J. Meade, wearing extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) upper torso, takes a breather from suit donning activities in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Meade is preparing for an underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation. During the training exercise, Meade will rehearse contingency EVA procedures for the STS-38 mission aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104.
Date Taken 1990-02-23
STS-38 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert C. Springer dons EMU in JSC's WETF
Description STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert C. Springer dons extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) upper torso with technicians' assistance in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Positioned on the WETF platform at pool side, Springer is preparing for an underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation. During the training session, Springer will rehearse contingency EVA procedures for the STS-38 mission aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104.
Date Taken 1990-02-23
STS-38 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Carl J. Meade dons EMU in JSC's WETF Bldg 29
Description STS-38 Mission Specialist (MS) Carl J. Meade, wearing liquid cooling and ventilation garment (LCVG) and extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) lower torso, crouches under EMU upper torso. Technicians extend the EMU sleeves as Meade reaches into upper torso during suit donning in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Positioned on the WETF platform at pool side, Meade is preparing for an underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation. During the training exercise, Meade will rehearse contingency EVA procedures for the STS-38 mission aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104.
Date Taken 1990-02-23
STS-31 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-31 Mission Specialist (MS) Sullivan during JSC WETF underwater simulation
Description SCUBA-equipped divers look on as STS-31 Mission Specialist (MS) Kathryn D. Sullivan releases a pip pin on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Support System Module (SSM) forward shell mockup during an underwater simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility Bldg 29 pool. Sullivan is suited in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) as she practices extravehicular activity (EVA) operations. Though no EVA is planned for STS-31, two crewmembers train for contingencies that would necessitate leaving the shirt sleeve environment of Discovery's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103's, crew cabin and performing chores with the HST payload or related hardware in the payload bay (PLB).
Date Taken 1990-03-05
STS-41 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-41 Mission Specialist (MS) Akers in EMU prepares for JSC WETF simulation
Description STS-41 Mission Specialist (MS) Thomas D. Akers, suited in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) and wearing a communications carrier assembly (CCA), prepares for an extravehicular activity (EVA) contingency simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Akers will be lowered into the WETF's 25 ft deep pool for the underwater simulation.
Date Taken 1990-07-17
STS-37 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-37 Mission Specialist (MS) Jerome Apt floats in raft in JSC's WETF pool
Description STS-37 Mission Specialist (MS) Jerome Apt, wearing launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), propels his one-person life raft by splashing water during emergency egress exercise in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. Apt, floating in the life raft, was simulating the steps involved in emergency egress from a Space Shuttle. The WETF's 25-ft pool served as a simulated ocean into which a parachute landing might be made.
Date Taken 1990-08-03
STS-37 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-37 Mission Specialist (MS) Godwin floating in life raft in JSC WETF pool
Description STS-37 Mission Specialist (MS) Linda M. Godwin, wearing launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), floats in a one-person life raft during a training session in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. She was simulating steps involved in emergency egress from a Space Shuttle. The WETF's 25-ft deep pool served as a simulated ocean into which a parachute landing might be made.
Date Taken 1990-08-03
STS-42 Mission Specialist Th …
Title STS-42 Mission Specialist Thagard during egress exercises in JSC's WETF pool
Description STS-42 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, Mission Specialist Norman E. Thagard, wearing a launch and entry suit (LES), prepares to don the communications carrier assembly (CCA) prior to launch emergency egress (bailout) exercises in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool.
Date Taken 1991-11-06
STS-49 Mission Specialist (M …
Title STS-49 Mission Specialist (MS) Hieb prepares for EVA simulation in JSC's WETF
Description STS-49 Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, Mission Specialist (MS) Richard J. Hieb, fully suited in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), adjusts the EMU mini workstation attached to the EMU upper torso as technicians look on. Hieb is preparing for International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) on-orbit repair and redeployment simulation activities in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. In the spring of next year, Hieb will exit the shirt-sleeve environment of OV-105 to assist in capturing the errant INTELSAT VI communications spacecraft and to install a perigee stage on the satellite to help it achieve its originally intended geosynchronous orbital position. Hieb is fitted with weights on his pressurized spacesuit to help him achieve neutral buoyancy in the WETF pool.
Date Taken 1992-01-02
STS-52 Mission Specialist Ve …
Title STS-52 Mission Specialist Veach, in LES/LEH, during JSC WETF bailout exercise
Description STS-52 Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, Mission Specialist (MS) Charles Lacy Veach, wearing launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), smiles as he observes emergency egress (bailout) training exercise in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. Veach waits his turn to be dropped into the WETF's 25-ft deep pool which will simulate the ocean during of his water landing.
Date Taken 1992-06-26
STS-65 Mission Specialist Ch …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Chiao and Payload Specialist Mukai at JSC's WETF
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao, outfitted in a launch and entry suit (LES), and Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai, in LES, sit on chairs along the poolside prior to a launch emergency egress training (bailout) exercise in the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. The two crewmembers await a simulated parachute drop into the pool. A portion of the STS-65 crew was in the WETF for bailout training. Mukai, representing Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA), will join Chiao and five other NASA astronauts for the International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, later this year.
Date Taken 1994-03-08
STS-65 Mission Specialist Ch …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Chiao and backup payload specialist Favier at WETF
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao, outfitted in a launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), and backup payload specialist Jean-Jacques Favier, in LES, discuss procedures on the poolside prior to launch emergency egress training (bailout) exercise in the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Chiao will join five other NASA astronauts and a Japanese payload specialist later this year for two weeks aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, in support of the second International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission. Favier represents France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES).
Date Taken 1994-03-08
STS-65 Mission Specialist Ch …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Chiao in LES at pre-test WETF bailout briefing
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao, outfitted in a launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), listens to a briefing on procedures that would become necessary in the event of an emergency egress situation from the Space Shuttle. The astronaut was in the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 for the launch emergency egress training (bailout) exercise. Chiao will join five other NASA astronauts and a Japanese payload specialist for the second International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, later this year.
Date Taken 1994-03-08
STS-65 Mission Specialist Wa …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Walz poolside at JSC's WETF during contingency exer
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist Carl E. Walz, holding a NIKON camera, stands on the poolside of the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) during extravehicular activity (EVA) contingency exercise preparations. Walz stands by to photograph two of his crewmates about to be lowered into the WETF's 25-feet deep pool. Astronauts Donald A. Thomas and Leroy Chiao were about to be submerged and made to be neutrally buoyant in order to rehearse several contingency tasks that would require a spacewalk. No spacewalks are scheduled for the STS-65 International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission.
Date Taken 1994-03-15
STS-65 Mission Specialist Ch …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Chiao floats in a single person raft in JSC's WETF
Description Having just deployed a small, single-person life raft, astronaut and STS-65 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao, outfitted in a launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), floats in a 25-feet deep pool at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). The astronaut was in the Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool for a training exercise, designed to familiarize crewmembers with procedures to call on in the event of an emergency egress situation with the Space Shuttle. Chiao will join five other NASA astronauts and a Japanese payload specialist for the second International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, later this year.
Date Taken 1994-03-08
STS-65 Mission Specialist Ch …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Chiao in EMU prepares for WETF contingency EVA
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao, fully suited in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) and helmet, stands on a platform suspended via an overhead crane as he is lowered into a 25-feet deep pool at the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Chiao prepares to be immersed in the pool to practice door and latch contingency extravehicular activity (EVA) procedures. Although no spacewalk is planned for the STS-65 International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission, NASA always trains some of each mission's crewmembers to perform in-space tasks that would be required in the event of remote system failure. For 14 years, the WETF pool has been used to train astronauts for spacewalks and to evaluate certain hardware and procedures. Chiao's EMU is weighted to enable the astronaut to achieve neutral buoyancy once in the tank. SCUBA-equipped divers already in the pool guide the platform into the water.
Date Taken 1994-03-15
STS-65 Mission Specialist Ch …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Chiao in EMU prepares for WETF contingency EVA
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao, fully suited in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) and helmet, stands on a platform and prepares to be lowered into a 25-feet deep pool at the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Chiao will practice door and latch contingency extravehicular activity (EVA) procedures once underwater. Mission Specialist Donald A. Thomas will join Chiao in the simulation. The two crewmates will be submerged and made to be neutrally buoyant in order to rehearse the contingency tasks that would require a spacewalk. No spacewalks are scheduled for the STS-65 International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission.
Date Taken 1994-03-15
STS-65 Mission Specialist Ch …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist Chiao in EMU prepares for WETF contingency EVA
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist Leroy Chiao, fully suited in an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) and helmet, prepares to be lowered into a 25-feet deep pool at the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Chiao will practice door and latch contingency extravehicular activity (EVA) procedures once underwater. Mission Specialist Donald A. Thomas will join Chiao in the simulation. The two crewmates will be submerged and made to be neutrally buoyant in order to rehearse the contingency tasks that would require a spacewalk. No spacewalks are scheduled for the STS-65 International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission.
Date Taken 1994-03-15
STS-65 Mission Specialist an …
Title STS-65 Mission Specialist and PLC Hieb during WETF bailout exercise
Description STS-65 Mission Specialist and Payload Commander (PLC) Richard J. Hieb, fully suited in his launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), enjoys a light moment during the STS-65 launch emergency egress (bailout) training at the Johnson Space Center's (JSC's) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Hieb will join five other NASA astronauts and a Japanese payload specialist later this year for two weeks aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, in support of the International Microgravity Laboratory 2 (IML-2) mission.
Date Taken 1994-03-16
Astronaut Andrew S. W. Thoma …
Title Astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, mission specialist, is helped with the final touches of suit donning during emergency bailout training for crew members in the Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F).
Description STS-77 TRAINING VIEW --- Astronaut Andrew S. W. Thomas, mission specialist, is helped with the final touches of suit donning during emergency bailout training for crew members in the Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F). Thomas will join five other astronauts for nine days aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour next month.
Date Taken 1996-05-19
Astronaut Daniel W. Bursch, …
Title Astronaut Daniel W. Bursch, mission specialist, uses his helmet to bail out water from his life raft during emergency bailout training for crew members in the Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F).
Description STS-77 TRAINING VIEW --- Astronaut Daniel W. Bursch, mission specialist, uses his helmet to bail out water from his life raft during emergency bailout training for crew members in the Johnson Space Centers (JSC) Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F). Bursch will join five other astronauts for nine days aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour next month.
Date Taken 1996-05-19
STS-51A mission specialist J …
Title STS-51A mission specialist Joseph P. Allen during WETF training
Description Portrait view of STS-51A mission specialist Joseph P. Allen during training in the Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF). He is wearing the extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) minus the helmet.
Date Taken 1984-07-20
European Space Agency (ESA) …
Title European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist Nicollier trains in JSC's WETF
Description European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier (left) is briefed by Randall S. McDaniel on Space Shuttle extravehicular activity (EVA) tools and equipment prior to donning an extravehicular mobility unit and participating in an underwater EVA simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. Nicollier is holding the EMU mini workstation. Other equipment on the table includes EVA tool caddies and EVA crewmember safety tethers.
Date Taken 1987-09-23
ESA Mission Specialist (MS) …
Title ESA Mission Specialist (MS) Nicollier dons EMU for simulation in JSC's WETF
Description European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier, smiling, pauses during the donning of his extravehicular mobility unit (EMU). Nicollier is preparing for an underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation and familiarization session in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. Hanging from the EMU neck ring is the communications carrier assembly (CCA) strap.
Date Taken 1987-09-25
ESA Mission Specialist (MS) …
Title ESA Mission Specialist (MS) Nicollier dons EMU for simulation in JSC's WETF
Description European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier dons extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 prior to an underwater extravehicular activity (EVA) simulation. Hanging from the EMU neck ring is the communications carrier assembly (CCA).
Date Taken 1987-09-23
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