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Onboard photo: Flight Engine
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Onboard photo: Flight Engineer and Mission Specialist Wendy Lawrence |
| Date of Image |
1995-03-02 |
| Full Description |
Astronaut Tamara Jernigan, STS-67 payload commander, and payload specialist Samuel T. Durrance use the absence of gravity for a perusal of Astro-2 targets in a loose-leaf, Rolodex-type collection of data. The two are in the mid-deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. |
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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-67 in-flight crew portra
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STS-67 in-flight crew portrait |
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The STS-67/ASTRO-2 crew members pose for their traditional inflight portrait on the aft flight deck of the Earth orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. Left to right in the front are astronauts Tamara E. Jernigan, payload commander, Steven S. Oswald, mission commander, and William G. Gregory, pilot. Left to right on the back row are astronaut Wendy B. Lawrence, flight engineer, payload specialists Ronald A. Parise and Samuel T. Durrance, and John M. Grunsfeld, mission specialist. |
| Date Taken |
1995-03-03 |
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Astronauts Grunsfeld and Dur
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Astronauts Grunsfeld and Durrance take a break from ASTRO-2 work |
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Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld (left), STS-67 mission specialist, and payload specialist Samuel T. Durrance take a break from ASTRO-2 work on the flight deck of the Earth orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. This aft flight deck location was used almost round-the-clock during the record-setting, almost 17 day ASTRO-2 mission, to collect data from the universe. Durrance is a principle research scientist in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Durrance is a co-investigator and Assistant Project Scientist for the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT). |
| Date Taken |
1995-03-03 |
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