NASA Photo ID: S90-38109           File Name: 10063911.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 05/22/90
  Title: STS-35 ASTRO-1 MS Parker and Payload Specialist Durrance train at MSFC
  Description:
  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
  investigator teams who were nominated  by their peers to operate their
  experiments on orbit.  They are trained and  certified for flight by NASA.) 
  View provided by MSFC with alternate number  9005803.     
  
  Subject terms:
  AFT FLIGHT DECK                         
  ALABAMA                                 
  ASTRO MISSIONS (STS)                    
  ASTRONAUT TRAINING                      
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  CREW WORKSTATIONS                       
  CREWS                                   
  HEADSETS                                
  MOCK-UP                                 
  PAYLOAD SPECIALISTS                     
  SIMULATORS                              
  SPACE FLIGHT TRAINING                   
  STS-35                                  
  TRAINING DEVICES                        
  

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