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JSC Astronaut corps, STS-3 v …
Title JSC Astronaut corps, STS-3 vehicle integration test team and others
Description Members of the JSC astronaut corps, STS-3 vehicle integration test (VIT) team and other personnel pose for photograph at the completion of a countdown demonstration test (CDDT) and safety briefings at Launch Pad 39A, Kennedy Space Center. Participants are, from the left, Wilbur J. Etbauer, engineer with the VIT team, George W.S. Abbey, Director of Flight Operations at JSC, Astronaut John H. Young, Chief of the Astronaut Office at JSC, Jack Fleming of Rockwell International, Mission Specialist-Astronaut John M. Lounge, Astronaut Daniel C. Brandenstein, Mission Specialist-Astronaut James D. Van Hoften, Astronauts C. Gordon Fullerton and Jack Lousma, prime crew for STS-3, Olan J. Bertrand, VIT team member, Mission Specialist-Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, Richard W. Nygren, head of the VIT team, and Astronaut Donald E. Williams. The Columbia is obscured by its service structure on Launch Pad 39A in the background. Part of slide-wire emergency escape system is visible in the picture.
Date Taken 1982-03-17
Commander Lousma works with …
Title Commander Lousma works with EEVT experiment and cryogenic tube on aft middeck
Description Commander Jack Lousma works with Electrophoresis Equipment Verification Test (EEVT) electrophoresis unit, cryogenic freezer and tube, and stowage locker equipment located on crew compartment middeck aft bulkhead.
Date Taken 1982-03-31
Commander Lousma adjusts HAS …
Title Commander Lousma adjusts HASSELBLAD camera at EEVT on aft middeck
Description Commander Jack Lousma adjusts HASSELBLAD EL data camera at Electrophoresis Equipment Verification Test (EEVT) electrophoresis unit and cryogenic freezer stowed in crew compartment middeck aft bulkhead. View looks down on Lousma and middeck from aft flight deck interdeck access hatch.
Date Taken 1982-03-31
Commander Lousma examines In …
Title Commander Lousma examines Insect Flight Motion Study
Description Commander Jack Lousma examines Insect Flight Motion Study (Student Experiment) taped to the airlock on the aft middeck. Lousma points to velvetbean caterpillar moth activity with a pen.
Date Taken 1982-03-31
Commander Lousma works with …
Title Commander Lousma works with EEVT experiment on aft middeck
Description Commander Jack Lousma works with Electrophoresis Equipment Verification Test (EEVT) electrophoresis unit, cryogenic freezer, and stowage locker equipment located in crew compartment middeck aft bulkhead. View looks down on Lousma and middeck from aft flight deck interdeck access hatch.
Date Taken 1982-03-31
Commander Lousma with Bubble …
Title Commander Lousma with Bubble Separation Experiment
Description Commander Jack Lousma wearing the communications kit assembly (ASSY) mini headsets (HDSTs), conducts Bubble Separation Experiment on the middeck. Lousma displays experiment in front of the port side forward middeck lockers (meal tray assemblies secured on lockers).
Date Taken 1982-03-31
Commander prepares glass col …
Title Commander prepares glass columns for electrophoresis experiment
Description Commander Jack Lousma prepares on of the glass columns for the electrophoresis test in the middeck area of the Columbia. The experiment, deployed in an L-shaped mode in upper right corner, consists of the processing unit with glass columns in which the separation takes place, a camera (partially obscurred by Lousma's face) to document the process, and a cryogenic freezer to freeze and store the samples after separation.
Date Taken 1982-03-31
Commander Lousma recieves FD …
Title Commander Lousma recieves FDF procedures on forward flight deck
Description Commander Jack Lousma reviews Flight Data File (FDF) notebook on forward flight deck commanders ejection seat (S1). Lousma wears the communication kit assembly headset. Forward control panels, crewman optical alignment sight (COAS), forward window, and 16mm camera appear in view.
Date Taken 1982-03-31
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