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Columbia Commander John Youn …
Title Columbia Commander John Young
Full Description John W. Young, STS-1 mission Commander, prepares to log flight-pertinent data in a loose-leaf flight activities notebook onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Young is seated in the commander's station on the port side of Columbia's forward flight deck.
Date 04/14/1981
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Inflight activites of Young …
Title Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck STS-1
Description Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck areas during the STS-1 mission. Commander John W. Young mans the commander's station in the Columbia. A loose leaf notebook with flight activites data floats in the weightless environment (30419), Pilot Robert L. Crippen takes advantage of zero gravity to do some aerobics in the mid-deck area (30420), Young shaves his face in the mid-deck area. Food tray is mounted to the locker door at center (30421), Young cleans off his razor after shaving (30422), Crippen floats in zero gravity inside the orbiter. Clouds over the earth can be seen through the spacecraft's top viewing windows. Back side of the commander and pilot's seats can be seen at lower portion of the frame (30423).
Date 04.15.1981
STS 41-C crewmembers before …
Title STS 41-C crewmembers before departure for KSC
Description Four members of the 41-C flight crew share a moment with the chief of the NASA astronaut office John Young prior to their departure from Ellington Air Force Base. The crew members are Robert L. Crippen (center), crew commander, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee (second left), pilot, and James D. van Hoften (left) and Terry J. Hart (right), mission specialists. John Young is wearing the cap.
Date Taken 1984-04-03
Photo of 41-C crew taken in …
Title Photo of 41-C crew taken in aft flight deck on orbit
Description Photo of 41-C crew taken in aft flight deck of the Challenger while in orbit. Astronauts Robert L. Crippen, right, crew commander, and Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, left, pilot, flank the mission specialists -- (l-r) George D. Nelson, James D. van Hoften and Terry J. Hart.
Date Taken 1984-04-06
STS 41-C Challenger crew dec …
Title STS 41-C Challenger crew decends from orbiter at landing site
Description The STS 41-C Challenger crew decends from the orbiter at Edwards Air Force Base, California. They are (bottom to top) Astronauts Robert L. Crippen, crew commander, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, pilot, and James D. van Hoften, George D. Nelson and Terry J. Hart, all mission specialists.
Date Taken 1984-04-13
STS 41-C crew move to transf …
Title STS 41-C crew move to transfer van for trip to Launch Pad 39B
Description STS 41-C crew move to the transfer van for the trip to Launch Pad 39B. Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, commander, leads the way. Behind Crippen is Astronaut Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, pilot. The three mission specialists are (left to right) Astronauts Terry J. Hart, George D. Neldon and James D. van Hoften.
Date Taken 1984-04-06
STS 41-C Challenger crew con …
Title STS 41-C Challenger crew congratulates each other at landing site
Description The STS 41-C Challenger crew engages in a group congratulations after the landing of their mission. They are standing in front of the orbiter in a circle. They are (left to right around circle) Astronauts James D. van Hoften, mission specialist, Francis R. (Dick) scobee, pilot, Terry J. Hart and George D. Nelson, mission specialists, and Robert L. Crippen, crew commander.
Date Taken 1984-04-13
STS 41-C crew breakfast
Title STS 41-C crew breakfast
Description The STS 41-C astronaut crew awaiting their breakfast prior to launch. Crewmen include, from left to right: Astronauts George D. Nelson, James D. van Hoften, Robert L. Crippen, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee and Terry J. Hart. Crippen is crew commander, Scobee is pilot and the others are mission specialists. Notice the cake on the table in front of them is decorated with the mission patch and the names of the crew.
Date Taken 1984-04-06
Inflight activites of Young …
Title Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck STS-1
Description Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck areas during the STS-1 mission. Commander John W. Young mans the commander's station in the Columbia. A loose leaf notebook with flight activites data floats in the weightless environment (30419), Pilot Robert L. Crippen takes advantage of zero gravity to do some aerobics in the mid-deck area (30420), Young shaves his face in the mid-deck area. Food tray is mounted to the locker door at center (30421), Young cleans off his razor after shaving (30422), Crippen floats in zero gravity inside the orbiter. Clouds over the earth can be seen through the spacecraft's top viewing windows. Back side of the commander and pilot's seats can be seen at lower portion of the frame (30423).
Date Taken 1981-04-15
Inflight activites of Young …
Title Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck STS-1
Description Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck areas during the STS-1 mission. Commander John W. Young mans the commander's station in the Columbia. A loose leaf notebook with flight activites data floats in the weightless environment (30419), Pilot Robert L. Crippen takes advantage of zero gravity to do some aerobics in the mid-deck area (30420), Young shaves his face in the mid-deck area. Food tray is mounted to the locker door at center (30421), Young cleans off his razor after shaving (30422), Crippen floats in zero gravity inside the orbiter. Clouds over the earth can be seen through the spacecraft's top viewing windows. Back side of the commander and pilot's seats can be seen at lower portion of the frame (30423).
Date Taken 1981-04-15
Inflight activites of Young …
Title Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck STS-1
Description Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck areas during the STS-1 mission. Commander John W. Young mans the commander's station in the Columbia. A loose leaf notebook with flight activites data floats in the weightless environment (30419), Pilot Robert L. Crippen takes advantage of zero gravity to do some aerobics in the mid-deck area (30420), Young shaves his face in the mid-deck area. Food tray is mounted to the locker door at center (30421), Young cleans off his razor after shaving (30422), Crippen floats in zero gravity inside the orbiter. Clouds over the earth can be seen through the spacecraft's top viewing windows. Back side of the commander and pilot's seats can be seen at lower portion of the frame (30423).
Date Taken 1981-04-15
Inflight activites of Young …
Title Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck STS-1
Description Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck areas during the STS-1 mission. Commander John W. Young mans the commander's station in the Columbia. A loose leaf notebook with flight activites data floats in the weightless environment (30419), Pilot Robert L. Crippen takes advantage of zero gravity to do some aerobics in the mid-deck area (30420), Young shaves his face in the mid-deck area. Food tray is mounted to the locker door at center (30421), Young cleans off his razor after shaving (30422), Crippen floats in zero gravity inside the orbiter. Clouds over the earth can be seen through the spacecraft's top viewing windows. Back side of the commander and pilot's seats can be seen at lower portion of the frame (30423).
Date Taken 1981-04-15
Inflight activites of Young …
Title Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck STS-1
Description Inflight activites of Young and Crippen in the cockpit and middeck areas during the STS-1 mission. Commander John W. Young mans the commander's station in the Columbia. A loose leaf notebook with flight activites data floats in the weightless environment (30419), Pilot Robert L. Crippen takes advantage of zero gravity to do some aerobics in the mid-deck area (30420), Young shaves his face in the mid-deck area. Food tray is mounted to the locker door at center (30421), Young cleans off his razor after shaving (30422), Crippen floats in zero gravity inside the orbiter. Clouds over the earth can be seen through the spacecraft's top viewing windows. Back side of the commander and pilot's seats can be seen at lower portion of the frame (30423).
Date Taken 1981-04-15
STS 41-G crew photo taken on …
Title STS 41-G crew photo taken on the flight deck of the Challenger during flight
Description STS 41-G crew photo taken on the flight deck of the Challenger during the flight. Front row (l.-r.) Jon A. McBride, pilot, Sally K. RIde, Kathryn D. SUllivan and David C. Leestma, all mission specialists. Back row (l.-r.) Paul D. Scully-Power, payload specialist, Robert L. Crippen, crew commander, and Marc Garneau, payload specialist. Garneau represents the National Research Council of Canada and Scully-Power is a civilian oceanographer with the U.S. Navy.
Date Taken 1984-10-13
Astronaut Robert Crippen han …
Title Astronaut Robert Crippen handles RMS controls during proximity operations
Description Astronaut Robert L. Crippen operates panel 7U remote manipulator system (RMS) rotation control during proximity operations with the West German Shuttle pallet (SPAS-01) on June 22, 1983. A data acquisition camera and a video camera are seen at left on the aft flight deck. The Orbit Ops Checklist is also visible below Crippen's arm.
Date Taken 1983-06-25
Astronaut Robert Crippen on …
Title Astronaut Robert Crippen on Flight Deck
Description Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, crew commander on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilots chair on the Flight Deck. Floating in front of him is a flight procedures notebook.
Date Taken 1983-06-25
Inflight views of the crew o …
Title Inflight views of the crew of STS-7
Description Inflight view of the crew of STS-7. This view is a group portrait of the crew on the flight deck displaying some jelly beans discovered among their food supplies. The label on the candy reads "Compliments of the White House." In the rear from left to right are Astronauts Robert L. Crippen, crew commander, Frederick H. Hauck, pilot, and John M. Fabian, mission specialist. In front are Drs. Sally K. Ride and Norman E. Thagard, mission specialists.
Date Taken 1983-06-25
Inflight views of the crew o …
Title Inflight views of the crew of STS-7
Description Inflight views of the crew of STS-7. Views include Astronaut Sally K. Ride, misison specialist, using a screw driver to clean out an air filtering system in the middeck of the Challenger. Dr. Ride's constant wear garment bears a cartoon of 35 busy astronauts around a space shuttle and the acronym TFNG, below which is written, "We deliver!". TFNG stands for thirty five new guys, referring to the 1978 class of astronauts from which Dr. Ride and three of her crewmates hail (35768), Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, crew commander, chooses to remain in the commander's station to shave his face using an electric razor. Forward control panels (L1, L5, O5), and windows appear in this view (35769), On middeck, Dr. Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist, conducts Detailed Supplementary Objective (DSO) 404 - On Orbit Head and Eye Tracking Tasks. Seated in the mission specialists seat, Thagard, wearing unicorn cap (pantograph attached) and with electrodes on his face and forehead, monitors DC Ampere (A
Date Taken 1983-06-25
Inflight views of the crew o …
Title Inflight views of the crew of STS-7
Description Inflight view of the crew of STS-7. This view is a group portrait of the crew on the flight deck. From left to right are Norman E. Thagard, mission specialist, Robert L. Crippen, crew commander, Sally K. Ride, mission specialist, and John M. Fabian, mission specialist. Seated in front of the group between Crippen and Ride is Pilot Frederick H. Hauck.
Date Taken 1983-06-25
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