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Vice President Bush with Spa
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| Title |
Vice President Bush with Spacelab Astronauts |
| Full Description |
Pictured from the left are astronaut Owen K. Garriott, Vice President George Bush, and Ulf Merbold of West Germany, inside Spacelab in the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center. This European-built orbital laboratory was formally dedicated on February 5, 1982. Merbold was one of the payload specialists on the first Spacelab flight STS-9, that launched November 28, 1983. Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that allowed scientists to perform various experiments in microgravity while orbiting Earth. Designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and mounted in NASA's Space Shuttle cargo bay, Spacelab flew on missions from 1983 to 1997. |
| Date |
02/05/1982 |
| NASA Center |
Kennedy Space Center |
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Young and Merbold eating mea
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Astronaut John W. Young (lef
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NASA |
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Mission Specialists eligible
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Mission Specialists eligible for the 1983 flight viewing Spacelab model |
| Description |
The first Mission Specialists eligible for the 1983 flight, viewing a Spacelab model are, from left to right: Hubbo Ockels, Netherlands, Ulf Merbold, West Germany, Michael Lampton, USA, Claude Nicollier, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut training, and Byron Lichtenhberg, USA. |
| Date Taken |
1982-09-29 |
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Portrait of Dr. Ulf Merbold,
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Portrait of Dr. Ulf Merbold, of the German Max-Planek Inst. at Stuffgart |
| Description |
Portrait of Dr. Ulf Merbold, of the German Max-Planek Institute at Stuttgart, named as a Spacelab Payload Specialist. |
| Date Taken |
1982-12-17 |
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Portrait view of Ulf Merbold
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| Title |
Portrait view of Ulf Merbold during training session |
| Description |
Portrait view of payload specialist West German Ulf Merbold during training sessionin the JSC shuttle mockup and integration laboratory. He is wearing his launch helmet. |
| Date Taken |
1983-09-28 |
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STS-9 payload specialist Mer
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STS-9 payload specialist Merbold and backup Ockels in training session |
| Description |
STS-9 payload specialist Ulf Merbold, right, a West German physicist and backup Wubbo Ockels, a Dutch scientist, are pictured in a training session in JSC's Shuttle mockup and integration laboratory. In this view Ockels appears to be showing Merbold how to operate a camera. |
| Date Taken |
1983-09-28 |
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STS-9 payload specialists an
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STS-9 payload specialists and backup in training session |
| Description |
Two Spacelab 1 payload specialists and a backup for that flight prepare for a training session in the JSC mockup and integration laboratory. Fully decked out in the Shuttle constant wear garments (foreground) are Ulf Merbold, left, and Byron K. Licktenberg, prime crewmembers on the STS-9 team. In civilian clothes is payload specialist backup Michael L. Lampton. |
| Date Taken |
1983-09-28 |
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Views of the mission control
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Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
| Description |
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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| Title |
Views of the mission control center during STS-9 |
| Description |
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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