NASA Photo ID: S90-54863           File Name: 10064888.jpg
  Film Type: 120mm                   Date Taken: 12/17/90
  Title: STS-47 backup Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai trains at Homestead AFB
  Description:
  STS-47 Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, backup Payload Specialist
  Chiaki  Mukai participates in a special survival training course hosted by
  Homestead  Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida.  Mukai, wearing helmet and life
  jacket,  prepares to use a slide wire system to simulate the rapid approach
  of a  parachute into a water landing.  Training instructors coach her
  before she is  dropped from the tower platform.  The exercise was part of
  an overall course  on water survival, attended by STS-47 prime and
  alternate payload specialists  shortly after they were announced for the
  scheduled summer of 1992 Spacelab  Japan (SLJ) mission.  Mukai represents
  the National Space Development Agency  of Japan (NASDA).            
  
  Subject terms:
  FLORIDA                                 
  FLOTATION                               
  HELMETS                                 
  HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE                
  INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION               
  JAPAN                                   
  JAPANESE SPACE PROGRAM                  
  PARACHUTES                              
  PAYLOAD SPECIALISTS                     
  PERSONNEL                               
  SPACE FLIGHT TRAINING                   
  STS-47                                  
  SURVIVAL                                
  SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT                      
  TRAINING DEVICES                        
  

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