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STS-46 Launch
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STS-46 Launch |
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1992-07-31 |
| Full Description |
Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on July 31, 1992 at 9:56:48 am (EDT), the STS-46 mission?s primary objectives included the deployment of the European Space Agency?s European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) and operation of the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS). The STS-46 crew of seven included: Loren J. Shriver, commander, Andrew M. Allen, pilot, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, mission specialist 1, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, mission specialist 2, Claude Nicollier, mission specialist 3, Marsha S. Ivins, mission specialist 4, and Franco Malerba, payload specialist 1. |
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STS-46 Launch
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STS-46 Launch |
| Date of Image |
1992-07-31 |
| Full Description |
Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on July 31, 1992 at 9:56:48 am (EDT), the STS-46 mission?s primary objectives included the deployment of the European Space Agency?s European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) and operation of the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS). The STS-46 crew of seven included: Loren J. Shriver, commander, Andrew M. Allen, pilot, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, mission specialist 1, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, mission specialist 2, Claude Nicollier, mission specialist 3, Marsha S. Ivins, mission specialist 4, and Franco Malerba, payload specialist 1. |
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STS-46 Crew Portrait
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STS-46 Crew Portrait |
| Date of Image |
1992-05-01 |
| Full Description |
The STS-46 crew portrait includes 7 crew members. Seated in front (left to right) are Andrew M. Allen, pilot, and Loren J. Shriver, commander. Standing (left to right) are Marsha S. Ivins, mission specialist 4, Claude Nicollier, mission specialist 3, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, mission specialist 1, Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, mission specialist 2, and Franco Malerba, payload specialist 1. Launched aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on July 31, 1992 at 9:56:48 am (EDT), the mission?s primary objectives included the deployment of the European Space Agency?s European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) and operation of the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS). |
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STS-46 MS Hoffman takes Italian Space Agency (ASI) personnel on tour of JSC |
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STS-46 Mission Specialist (MS) and Payload Commander (PLC) Jeffrey A. Hoffman escorts representatives from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) on a tour of the Space Station Mockup and Trainer Facility (SSMTF) located in JSC's Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9B. Hoffman (center), wearing microphone, briefs visitors on the SSMTF Habitation Module galley area. At the far left is STS-46 backup Payload Specialist Umberto Guidoni. At Hoffman's right is STS-46 Payload Specialist Franco Malerba (glasses hanging around his neck). |
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1989-06-09 |
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Official portrait of Franco
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Official portrait of Franco Malerba, STS-46 payload specialist |
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Official portrait of Franco Malerba, STS-46 payload specialist, wearing blue flight suit, with flag, space shuttle and tethered satellite system (TSS) models. |
| Date Taken |
1991-09-03 |
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Portrait of STS-46 Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba taken at MSFC |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, seated and wearing a navy blue flight suit, poses with model of Tethered Satellite System (TSS) and the Italian and United States flags. The TSS-1 is a NASA and Italian Space Agency (ASI) joint effort that will fly aboard OV-104 during STS-46. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-12 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba on the middeck of JSC's FFT mockup |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba with his hand resting on the crew escape system (CES) pole stands on the middeck of the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) located in JSC's Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9. Malerba, wearing a flight suit, familiarizes himself with the operation of the CES pole which extends out the shuttle mockup's open side hatch. The CES pole is used if emergency egress is required during the launch or ascent phase of flight. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-11 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba at aft flight deck controls in JSC mockup |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, wearing flight suit, operates controls on the aft flight deck of the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) located in JSC's Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9. During the training session, Malerba adjusts a control on the A3 panel closed circuit television (CCTV). Onorbit station panels appear in front of Malerba and payload station controls behind him. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-11 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba sits at the pilots station in JSC mockup |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba sits at the pilots station on the forward flight deck of the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) located in JSC's Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9. Malerba, wearing a flight suit, is participating in a hardware familiarity training session. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-11 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba and MS Nicollier prepare for JSC training |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier, wearing their launch and entry suits (LESs), take a break from an emergency egress training session held in JSC's Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-11 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba, in LES, during for JSC egress training |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, wearing launch and entry suit (LES), stands at the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) side hatch awaiting his turn to enter the mockup. Crewmembers participated in hardware familiarity training and emergency egress training in the FFT located in JSC's Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9. In the background a second crewmember is seen through the side hatch on the FFT middeck. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-11 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba during water egress training in JSC's WETF |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba takes a break from launch emergency egress procedures conducted in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. Malerba is wearing a launch and entry suit (LES). |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-26 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba in JSC's WETF pool during egress training |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, wearing launch and entry suit (LES) and clamshell helmet, laughes as he floats in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. Malerba's flotation vest (life jacket) and two SCUBA-equipped divers keep him afloat after he was dropped into the pool during a launch emergency egress simulation. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-26 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba during water egress training at JSC's WETF |
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Poolside, STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, seated, listens to a NASA training support staffer during launch emergency egress simulation conducted in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. Malerba, wearing a launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), will be suspended above the WETF pool via the orange parachute harness straps which extend in front of him. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-26 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Ma
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba during water egress training at JSC's WETF |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, smiles, prior to launch emergency egress simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. Malerba is fully equipped with crew escape system (CES) gear including launch and entry suit (LES), launch and entry helmet (LEH), and parachute pack. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-26 |
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STS-46 crewmembers participate in Fixed Base (FB) SMS training at JSC |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Mission Specialist (MS) and Payload Commander (PLC) Jeffrey A. Hoffman, standing at the interdeck access ladder, explains procedures to backup Italian Payload Specialist Umberto Guidoni (center) and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba (right) on the middeck of JSC's fixed base (FB) shuttle mission simulator (SMS). Behind them, MS Marsha S. Ivins reviews a cheklist. Participants are wearing communications kit assembly lightweight headsets (HDSTs). FB-SMS is located in JSC's Mission Simulation and Training Facility Bldg 5. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-16 |
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STS-46 Pilot Allen and Paylo
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STS-46 Pilot Allen and Payload Specialist Malerba in life rafts at JSC's WEFT |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Pilot Andrew M. Allen (foreground) and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, wearing launch and entry suits (LESs) and launch and entry helmets (LEHs), float in one-person life rafts during a launch emergency egress (bailout) simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 pool. A SCUBA-equipped diver assists in the training activity. |
| Date Taken |
1992-04-24 |
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STS-46 crewmembers and backu
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STS-46 crewmembers and backup payload specialist in JSC WETF egress training |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Pilot Andrew M. Allen, wearing launch and entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helment (LEH), is assisted by training support personnel as he prepares to simulate a parachute glide into water (the pool) during a launch emergency egress (bailout) simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility Bldg 29. Allen holds onto the parachute straps before he is hoisted over the pool. Also in LES gear and waiting along the poolside are (left to right) backup Italian Payload Specialist Umberto Guidoni, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, and European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier. SCUBA-equipped divers in the pool are seen at the bottom of the frame listening to instructions. |
| Date Taken |
1992-04-24 |
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STS-46 crewmembers during wa
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STS-46 crewmembers during water egress training in JSC's WETF Bldg 29 |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier (right) and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba (left), seated at the pool's side, listen to instructions before participating in a launch emergency egress (bailout) simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. The two participants are wearing launch and entry suits (LESs). |
| Date Taken |
1992-04-24 |
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STS-46 MS Nicollier and Payl
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STS-46 MS Nicollier and Payload Specialist Malerba during JSC egress training |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier (left) and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, wearing launch and entry suits (LESs) and launch and entry helmets (LEHs), pose on the poolside of JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. The two crewmembers are preparing for a launch emergency egress (bailout) simulation during which they will be dropped into the WETF pool. After landing in the water they will test crew escape system (CES) equipment and flotation devices. |
| Date Taken |
1992-04-24 |
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STS-46 crewmembers during wa
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STS-46 crewmembers during water egress training in JSC's WETF Bldg 29 |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Pilot Andrew M. Allen (left) gestures with his gloved hand as Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba (right) looks on. The two crewmembers, seated at the pool's side and wearing launch and entry suits (LESs), are preparing for a launch emergency egress (bailout) simulation in JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29. |
| Date Taken |
1992-04-24 |
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STS-46 Atlantis, OV-104, cre
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STS-46 Atlantis, OV-104, crew participates in fire training at JSC |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, crewmembers participate in fire fighting and fire training exercises in JSC's Fire Training Pit located across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. Lined up along fire hoses and spraying water at the blazing fire pit are: (front to back in the foreground) European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier, directing the hose nozzle, MS and Payload Commander (PLC) Jeffrey A. Hoffman, MS Marsha S. Ivins (pink cap), and MS Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, and (front to back in the background) Commander Loren J. Shriver, Pilot Andrew M. Allen, backup Italian Payload Specialist Umberto Guidoni, and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba. A fire fighter training instructor stands between the two lines of crewmembers and the two hoses. |
| Date Taken |
1992-05-20 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Ma
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba uses extinguisher during JSC firefighting |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba shoots fire extinguisher spray at the base of a blazing fire during fire fighting and fire training exercises at JSC's Fire Training Pit located across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. Behind Malerba are the fire fighting training instructor, firemen, and European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier, holding a camcorder. |
| Date Taken |
1992-05-20 |
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STS-46 crewmembers handle wa
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STS-46 crewmembers handle water hoses during fire training at JSC's Fire Pit |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, crewmembers, directing the spray of two water hoses, approach a blaze in JSC's Fire Training Pit located across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. Manning the hose in the foreground are Commander Loren J. Shriver (left) and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba. Holding a second hose are European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist (MS) Claude Nicollier and MS Franklin R. Chang-Diaz who is aiming nozzle at the fire. Between the water hoses is a fire fighting training instructor. In the distance JSC's water tower and building facilities can be seen. |
| Date Taken |
1992-05-20 |
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STS-46 crewmembers line up a
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STS-46 crewmembers line up along hose during fire training at JSC |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, crewmembers, lined up along a water hose, take a break after extinquishing a blaze in JSC's Fire Training Pit during fire fighting and fire training exercises. At the front of the line holding the hose nozzle is Commander Loren J. Shriver with Pilot Andrew M. Allen, backup Italian Payload Specialist Umberto Guidoni, and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba behind him. The Fire Training Pit is located across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. |
| Date Taken |
1992-05-20 |
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Official portrait of the STS
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Official portrait of the STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, crew |
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The crewmembers assigned to NASA's STS-46 mission pose with seven flags that represent participation on the flight. Commander Loren J. Shriver (right), holding launch and entry helmet (LEH), and Pilot Andrew M. Allen (left), also holding LEH, are seated in the front. Standing behind them and wearing launch and entry suits (LESs) are (left to right) Mission Specialist (MS) Marsha S. Ivins, MS Claude Nicollier (representing the European Space Agency (ESA)), MS and Payload Commander (PLC) Jeffrey A. Hoffman, MS Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, and Payload Specialist Franco Malerba (flying for the Italian Space Agency (ASI)). The flags (left to right) represent the United States of America (USA), Costa Rica (Chang-Diaz's native country), Italy, Switzerland (Nicollier's homeland), NASA, ESA, and ASI. Portrait made by NASA JSC photographer Robert L. Walck. |
| Date Taken |
1992-07-31 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Ma
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba TOP experiment on OV-104's aft flight deck |
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STS-46 Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, wearing eye glasses and a headband with a penlight flashlight attached, points a camera through a window shade covering overhead window W7 on the aft flight deck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. Malerba is conducting the Tether Optical Phenomena (TOP) experiment. The camera is mounted on a bracket attached to onorbit station panel A6 and is equipped with image intensifiers and special filters. Surrounding Malerba are aft flight deck viewing window W9, aft windows shades, the pilots station seat back, and checklists clipped overhead. Other camera equipment appears in the view. |
| Date Taken |
1992-08-08 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Ma
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba looks out window on OV-104's flight deck |
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STS-46 Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba points to activities outside the aft flight deck overhead window W8 aboard Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. Malerba's back is parallel to the aft flight deck floor with onorbit panels appearing above his head and his feet at the forward flight deck. Malerba is watching Tethered Satellite System 1 (TSS-1) operations. |
| Date Taken |
1992-08-08 |
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STS-46 "blue" shift crewmemb
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STS-46 "blue" shift crewmembers look up from work on OV-104's flight deck |
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STS-46 "blue" shift crewmembers look up from checklist procedures to have their picture taken on the forward flight deck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. Seated at the commanders station (left) is Pilot Andrew M. Allen with Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba positioned in front of the center console and European Space Agency (ESA) Mission Specialist seated at the pilots station (right). MS Marsha S. Ivins is in the interdeck access hatch at the right bottom corner of the photo. |
| Date Taken |
1992-08-08 |
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STS-46 crewmembers work on O
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STS-46 crewmembers work on OV-104's aft flight deck |
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STS-46 crewmembers work on the aft flight deck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, during operations with the Tethered Satellite System 1 (TSS-1). Pictured are (left to right): Mission Specialist (MS) Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, shirtless, Commander Loren J. Shriver at onorbit station controls reviewing checklist, European Space Agency (ESA) MS Claude Nicollier at onorbit station controls, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba at the payload station controls, and Pilot Andrew M. Allen perched on headrest of the commanders seat. MS Marsha S. Ivins used a 35mm camera with a 16mm lens to take this picture. |
| Date Taken |
1992-08-08 |
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STS-46 Italian Payload Speci
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STS-46 Italian Payload Specialist Malerba uses laptop PGSC on OV-104 middeck |
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STS-46 Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba, wearing communications kit assembly headset (HDST), uses laptop payload and general support computer (PGSC) on the middeck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. Malerba is positioned in front of the airlock and surrounded by the interdeck access ladder (foreground), a cycle ergometer (directly behind him), the forward lockers (background), and the sleep station (at his left). Food, candy, hygiene kits, beverage containers, and film reels are attached to the forward lockers. |
| Date Taken |
1992-08-08 |
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STS-46 crew poses for onboar
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STS-46 crew poses for onboard (in-space) portrait on OV-104's middeck |
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STS-46 crewmembers pose for onboard (in-space) portrait on the middeck of Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104. In the rear are (left to right) Commander Loren J. Shriver, Pilot Andrew M. Allen, and Mission Specialist (MS) Franklin R. Chang-Diaz. In the front are (left to right) European Space Agency (ESA) MS Claude Nicollier, MS and Payload Commander (PLC) Jeffrey A. Hoffman, MS Marsha S. Ivins, and Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba. Note that the crewmembers are positioned parallel to the middeck floor with the sleep station (starboard side of the middeck) appearing in the background. |
| Date Taken |
1992-08-08 |
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Ma
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STS-46 Payload Specialist Malerba sits at the pilots station in JSC mockup |
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STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Italian Payload Specialist Franco Malerba sits at the pilots station on the forward flight deck of the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT) located in JSC's Mockup and Integration Laboratory (MAIL) Bldg 9. Malerba, wearing a flight suit, operates the control stick and enters data on the C2 panel keypad. He is participating in a hardware familiarity training session. |
| Date Taken |
1992-03-11 |
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