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Activities Inside Spacelab-1
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Activities Inside Spacelab-1 Module |
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1983-11-01 |
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This photograph shows activities inside the science module during the Spacelab-1 (STS-9) mission. Left to right are Mission Specialist Robert Parker, Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, Mission Specialist Owen Garriott, and Payload Specialist Ulf Merbold. The overall goal of the Spacelab-1 mission, the first mission of the Spacelab facility, were: (1) To verify the Spacelab system capability, (2) to obtain valuable scientific, applications, and technology data from a U.S./European multidisciplinary payload, and (3) to demonstrate the broad capability of Spacelab for scientific research. More than 70 experiments in 5 disciplines from 14 nations were conducted during the mission. The mission marked the the entry of non-astronaut persornel, called Payload Specialists, into space as working members of the crew. They are fellow scientists representing the international group of investigators using the mission. Mission Specialists are NASA astronauts who have broad scientific training. They operate various Orbiter-Spacelab systems, perform any required activity outside the spacecraft, and support investigations as needed. The Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia that carried Spacelab-1 was operated by two other NASA astronauts serving as commander and pilot. The STS-9 mission, managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center, was launched on November 28, 1983. |
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Gradient Heating Facility in
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Gradient Heating Facility in the Materials Science Double Rack (MSDR) on Spacelab-1 Module |
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1983-11-01 |
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The Space Shuttle was designed to carry large payloads into Earth orbit. One of the most important payloads is Spacelab. The Spacelab serves as a small but well-equipped laboratory in space to perform experiments in zero-gravity and make astronomical observations above the Earth's obscuring atmosphere. In this photograph, Payload Specialist, Ulf Merbold, is working at Gradient Heating Facility on the Materials Science Double Rack (MSDR) inside the science module in the Orbiter Columbia's payload bay during STS-9, Spacelab-1 mission. Spacelab-1, the joint ESA (European Space Agency)/NASA mission, was the first operational flight for the Spacelab, and demonstrated new instruments and methods for conducting experiments that are difficult or impossible in ground-based laboratories. This facility performed, in extremely low gravity, a wide variety of materials processing experiments in crystal growth, fluid physics, and metallurgy. The Marshall Space Flight Center had overall management responsibilities. |
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Payload Specialist Ulf Merbo
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Payload Specialist Ulf Merbold working in the Spacelab |
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Payload Specialist Ulf Merbold shown working in the Spacelab 1 module onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. |
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1983-11-28 |
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Astronauts Young and Merbold
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Astronauts Young and Merbold have meal in the middeck of Columbia |
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Astronauts John W. Young (top), and payload specialist Ulf Merbold have meal in the middeck of Columbia. They are in front of middeck stowage lockers MF43G and MF57G which are used for food and clothing. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-28 |
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STS-9 crewmembers work in th
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STS-9 crewmembers work in the Spacelab 1 module |
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A mission specialist and two payload specialists busy themselves in the Spacelab 1 module aboard the shuttle Columbia. Left to right are payload specialists Ulf Merbold and Byron K. Lichtenberg, and Mission Specialist Robert A. R. Parker. Parker is partially obscured by a deployed instrument of the fluid physics module at the materials sciences double rack. Merbold wears a head band-like device and a recorder as part of an overall effort to learn more aboutr space adaptation. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-28 |
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Portrait of STS-9 crew in th
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Portrait of STS-9 crew in the Spacelab |
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The six crewmembers of STS-9 position themselves in a star bust-like cluster in the aft end cone of Spacelab aboard the Shuttle Columbia. Clockwise, beginning with John W. Young, are Ulf Merbold, Owen K. Garriott, Brewster H. Shaw, Jr., Byron M. Lichtenberg and Robert A.R. Parker. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-28 |
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Payload specialist Merbold p
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Payload specialist Merbold performing experiment in Spacelab |
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Payload specialist Ulf Merbold carries out one of the experiments using the gradient heating facility on the materials science double rack in the science module in the Spacelab. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-28 |
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STS-9 crewmembers during bri
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STS-9 crewmembers during brief moment of collective fun |
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Four of the STS-9 crewmembers enjoying a rare moment of collective fun inside the Spacelab module onboar the Columbia. Left to right are Owen K. Garriott, Robert A.R. Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron K. Lichtenberg. The "card table" here is the scientific airlock hatch, and the "cards" are the targets used in the Awareness of Position experiment. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-28 |
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STS-9 crewmembers gather aro
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STS-9 crewmembers gather around television monitor in Spacelab module |
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STS-9 crewmembers gather around television monitor in the Spacelab module. Left to right are Robert A.R. Parker, Byron K. Lichtengberg, Owen K. Garriott and Ulf Merbold. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-28 |
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Views of the mission control
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Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
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Hagen Vogel, with the University of Mainz in West Germany, representing the European Space Agency, adjusts a monitor displaying a close-up view of the eye of Dr. Ulf Merbold, an ESA payload specialist in the Spacelab module aboard Columbia. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-30 |
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Views of the mission control
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Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
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The two backup payload specialists for Drs. Byron K. Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold huddle in the mission control center during day three activity aboard Spacelab. Seated at the Console is Dr. Michael Lampton. Leaning over Lampton's shoulder is Dutch scientist Wubbo Ockels. The two are surrounded by a few of the flight controllers in the payload operations control center (POCC) portion of JSC's mission control center. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-30 |
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Views of the mission control
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Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
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A group of payloads operation flight controllers follows early progress of the Spacelab 1 mission. Standing behind the row of consoles are European Space Agency's (ESA) Director General Erik Quistgaard and NASA Headquarters Dr. Michael J. Wiskerchen (44919), After opening of Spacelab in the cargo bay of Columbia, these flight controllers in the payloads operations control center (POCC) at JSC discuss agenda of experiments. Quistgaard, center, ESA's Director General, talks to ESA's Mel Brooks, left, and NASA headquarters Wiskerchen (44920), Flight controllers on duty in the POCC at JSC monitor day 1 activity aboard the Spacelab module. Behind them is a banner representing the West German state of Baden-Wurtenbug from which payload specialist Ulf Merbold hails (44921). |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-29 |
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Views of the mission control
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Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
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A group of payloads operation flight controllers follows early progress of the Spacelab 1 mission. Standing behind the row of consoles are European Space Agency's (ESA) Director General Erik Quistgaard and NASA Headquarters Dr. Michael J. Wiskerchen (44919), After opening of Spacelab in the cargo bay of Columbia, these flight controllers in the payloads operations control center (POCC) at JSC discuss agenda of experiments. Quistgaard, center, ESA's Director General, talks to ESA's Mel Brooks, left, and NASA headquarters Wiskerchen (44920), Flight controllers on duty in the POCC at JSC monitor day 1 activity aboard the Spacelab module. Behind them is a banner representing the West German state of Baden-Wurtenbug from which payload specialist Ulf Merbold hails (44921). |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-29 |
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Views of the mission control
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Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
| Description |
A group of payloads operation flight controllers follows early progress of the Spacelab 1 mission. Standing behind the row of consoles are European Space Agency's (ESA) Director General Erik Quistgaard and NASA Headquarters Dr. Michael J. Wiskerchen (44919), After opening of Spacelab in the cargo bay of Columbia, these flight controllers in the payloads operations control center (POCC) at JSC discuss agenda of experiments. Quistgaard, center, ESA's Director General, talks to ESA's Mel Brooks, left, and NASA headquarters Wiskerchen (44920), Flight controllers on duty in the POCC at JSC monitor day 1 activity aboard the Spacelab module. Behind them is a banner representing the West German state of Baden-Wurtenbug from which payload specialist Ulf Merbold hails (44921). |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-29 |
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STS-9 crew egress from Colum
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STS-9 crew egress from Columbia after landing of STS-9 mission |
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STS-9 crew members egress from space shuttle Columbia after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. Descending the stairs are (from bottom) Astronauts John W. Young, Brewster H. Shaw, Jr., and Robert A. R. Parker, West German physicist Dr. Ulf Merbold, Astronaut Owen K. Garriott, and Dr. Byron K. Licktenberg. |
| Date Taken |
1983-12-09 |
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Views of the mission control
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Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
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Hagen Vogel, with the University of Mainz in West Germany, representing the European Space Agency, adjusts a monitor displaying a close-up view of the eye of Dr. Ulf Merbold, an ESA payload specialist in the Spacelab module aboard Columbia. |
| Date Taken |
1983-11-30 |
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