NASA Photo ID: S82-28457          File Name: 10060612.jpg

Film Type: 4x5 cn                 Date Taken: 03/17/82

Title: JSC Astronaut corps, STS-3 vehicle integration test team and others

Description:

Members of the JSC astronaut corps, STS-3 vehicle integration test (VIT)
team  and other personnel pose for photograph at the completion of a
countdown  demonstration test (CDDT) and safety briefings at Launch Pad
39A, Kennedy  Space Center. Participants are, from the left, Wilbur J.
Etbauer, engineer  with the VIT team; George W.S. Abbey, Director of Flight
Operations at JSC;  Astronaut John H. Young, Chief of the Astronaut Office
at JSC; Jack Fleming  of Rockwell International; Mission
Specialist-Astronaut John M. Lounge;  Astronaut Daniel C. Brandenstein;
Mission Specialist-Astronaut James D. Van  Hoften; Astronauts C. Gordon
Fullerton and Jack Lousma, prime crew for STS-3;  Olan J. Bertrand, VIT
team member; Mission Specialist-Astronaut Kathryn D.  Sullivan; Richard W.
Nygren, head of the VIT team; and Astronaut Donald E.  Williams. The
Columbia is obscured by its service structure on Launch Pad 39A  in the
background. Part of slide-wire emergency escape system is visible in  the
picture.