NASA Photo ID: S92-41442           File Name: 10064820.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 07/16/92
  Title: STS-46 EURECA spacecraft during processing at Astrotech Space Operation
  Description:
  STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, European Retrievable Carrier 1L
  (EURECA-1L) undergoes preflight assembly and checkout by German aerospace 
  workers at the Astrotech Space Operations spacecraft processing facility in 
  Titusville, Florida. The clean-suited workers operate an overhead crane 
  holding the high-precision thermostat (HPT) experiment which will be
  mounted  on the EURECA-1L spacecraft on the right.  Designed and built by
  an  international contractor team lead by the German firm MBB / ERNO, the 
  spacecraft is scheduled for deployment from OV-104's payload bay (PLB)
  during  STS-46. European Space Agency (ESA) is sponsoring EURECA-1L, a
  free-flying  reusable research platform that will be deployed and retrieved
  at a later  date by another Shuttle crew. View provided by the Kennedy
  Space Center (KSC)  with alternate number KSC-91PC-1959.          
  
  Subject terms:
  EURECA (ESA)                            
  EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY                   
  FLORIDA                                 
  PERSONNEL                               
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  SPACE SHUTTLE PAYLOADS                  
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  SPACECRAFT MAINTENANCE                  
  STS-46                                  
  THERMOSTATS                             
  

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