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STS-35 crewmembers prepare f
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STS-35 crewmembers prepare for fire fighting exercises at JSC fire pit |
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STS-35 crewmembers prepare for fire fighting exercises at JSC Fire Training Pit across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. Wearing navy blue flight suits are (left to right) Commander Vance D. Brand, Mission Specialist Robert A.R. Parker, Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance, and Pilot Guy S. Gardner. |
| Date Taken |
1990-02-28 |
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STS-35 crewmembers during fi
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STS-35 crewmembers during fire fighting exercises at JSC fire training pit |
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STS-35 crewmembers extinguish a small blaze during a fire handling training session at JSC Fire Training Pit across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. Wearing navy blue flight suits, Mission Specialist (MS) Robert A.R. Parker (second right) and MS John M. Lounge (third left) approach fire while operating a fire extinguishers. The crew was briefed on types of potential blazes and the correct means of controlling each type. Also pictured are (left to right) Commander Vance D. Brand, Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance, Pilot Guy S. Gardner, and training officer Al Putnam. STS-35 will mark the first seven-member crew staffing since the Challenger accident of January 1986. |
| Date Taken |
1990-02-28 |
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STS-35 Pilot Gardner during
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STS-35 Pilot Gardner during fire fighting exercises at JSC fire training pit |
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STS-35 Pilot Guy S. Gardner extinguishes a small blaze during a fire handling training session for crewmembers at JSC Fire Training Pit across from the Gilruth Center Bldg 207. Wearing a navy blue flight suit, Gardner approaches fire while operating a fire extinguisher as Commander Vance D. Brand (far right) and Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance look on. The crew was briefed on types of potential blazes and the correct means of controlling each type. STS-35 will mark the first seven-member crew staffing since the Challenger accident of January 1986. |
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1990-02-28 |
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STS-35 Columbia, OV-102, cre
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STS-35 Columbia, OV-102, crewmembers take a break from KSC training |
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STS-35 Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, crewmembers Commander Vance D. Brand, Pilot Guy S. Gardner, Mission Specialist (MS) Jeffrey A. Hoffman, MS John M. Lounge, MS Robert A. R. Parker, Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance, and Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise and backup payload specialist Kenneth Nordsieck take a break from training activities and pose on the 195-Floor Level on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). On left from front to back are Brand, Parise, Lounge and Gardner and on right from front to back are Parker, Nordsieck, and Hoffman. View provided by KSC with alternate number KSC-90PC-670. |
| Date Taken |
1990-05-21 |
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STS-35 ASTRO-1 MS Parker and
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STS-35 ASTRO-1 MS Parker and Payload Specialist Durrance train at MSFC |
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STS-35 Mission Specialist (MS) Robert A.R. Parker (left) and Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance practice Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) experiment procedures in a space shuttle aft flight deck mockup in the Payload Crew Training Complex at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama. For all Spacelab missions, shuttle crew members train regularly in the facility in preparation to operate experiments on their Spacelab missions. The ASTRO-1 crew will operate the ultraviolet telescopes and instrument pointing system (IPS) from Columbia's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102's, aft flight deck. The seven-member ASTRO-1 crew will work around the clock, in 12-hour shifts, to allow the maximum number of observations to be made during their nine or ten days in orbit. In addition to the commander and pilot, the crew consistss of three MSs and two payload specialists. (MSs are career astronauts who are trained in a specialized field. Payload specialists are members of the science in |
| Date Taken |
1990-05-22 |
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STS-35 crew leaves KSC O and
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STS-35 crew leaves KSC O and C Bldg and boards van for transport to LC Pad 39A |
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STS-35 Commander Vance D. Brand (right) leads the STS-35 crewmembers toward a transfer van that will take them from the nearby Operations and Checkout (O and C) Building to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B. Trailing Brand (left to right) are Mission Specialist (MS) Robert A.R. Parker, Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance, Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise, MS John M. Lounge, MS Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and Pilot Guy S. Gardner. The crewmembers are wearing their orange launch and entry suits (LESs). |
| Date Taken |
1990-12-11 |
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STS-35 Official crew portrai
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STS-35 Official crew portrait |
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The five astronauts and two payload specialists assigned to NASA's STS-35 mission, scheduled aboard Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, in the spring of this year, pose for their crew portrait. Astronaut Vance D. Brand, center front and holding STS-35 insignia, making his fourth flight in space and his third STS flight, will serve as mission commander. he is flanked on the front row by Pilot Guy S. Gardner and Mission Specialist (MS) John M. Lounge. On the back row (left to right) are MS Robert A.R. Parker, Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise, MS Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance. The crewmembers are wearing their orange launch and entry suits (LESs). |
| Date Taken |
1990-01-01 |
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STS-35 MS Hoffman and PS Dur
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STS-35 MS Hoffman and PS Durrance on OV-102's middeck for "Space Classroom |
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STS-35 Mission Specialist (MS) Jeffrey A. Hoffman (mustache) and Payload Specialist (PS) Samuel T. Durrance conduct "Space Classroom Assignment: The Stars" on the middeck of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102. These crewmembers are giving students a lesson on the electromagnetic spectrum. Displayed behind them on the orbiter galley is a chart showing the range of light visible by each telescope that is operating in OV-102's payload bay (PLB) during the Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) mission. Live television allowed the space experts to give real-time observations and commentaries to the Earth-based academic audiences. |
| Date Taken |
1990-12-10 |
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STS-35 crewmembers watch a s
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STS-35 crewmembers watch a sphere of water float on OV-102's middeck |
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STS-35 crewmembers perform a microgravity experiment using their drinking water while on the middeck of Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102. Mission Specialist (MS) Jeffrey A. Hoffman (left) has released some water from a drinking container which he holds in his hand. MS John M. Lounge (wearing glasses, center) and Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance along with Hoffman study the changing shape and movement of the sphere of water. |
| Date Taken |
1990-12-10 |
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STS-35 payload specialists p
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STS-35 payload specialists perform balancing act on OV-102's middeck |
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Aided by the microgravity environment aboard Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, STS-35 Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise balances Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance on his index finger in front of the middeck starboard wall. Durrance is wearing a blood pressure cuff and is holding a beverage container and food package during the microgravity performance. The waste management compartment (WMC), side hatch, and orbiter galley are seen behind the two crewmembers. Durrance's feet are at the forward lockers. |
| Date Taken |
1990-12-10 |
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STS-35 crewmembers in sleep
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STS-35 crewmembers in sleep station compartments on OV-102's middeck |
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Though they are not actually asleep, three STS-35 crewmembers demonstrate the bunk-style sleep compartments onboard Columbia's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102's, middeck. From top to bottom are Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance, Mission Specialist (MS) Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and MS John M. Lounge. At the left is the shuttle amateur radio experiment (SAREX). The crew escape pole (CES) is visible overhead and the open airlock hatch in the foreground. The sleep station is located against the middeck starboard wall. |
| Date Taken |
1990-12-11 |
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STS-35 crewmembers pose on O
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STS-35 crewmembers pose on OV-102's middeck for onboard crew potrait |
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STS-35 crewmembers, wearing TAKE PRIDE IN AMERICA t-shirts, pose on Columbia's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102's, middeck for onboard (in-space) crew potrait. Clockwise from the bottom center are Commander Vance D. Brand, Mission Specialist (MS) Robert A.R. Parker, Payload Specialist Ronald A. Parise, MS Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Pilot Guy S. Gardner, MS John M. Lounge, and Payload Specialist Samuel T. Durrance. |
| Date Taken |
1990-12-11 |
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