NASA Photo ID: STS048-09-019       File Name: 10065055.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 09/18/91
  Title: STS-48 crew with MODE-01 structural test article (STA) on OV-103's middeck
  Description:
  STS-48 Mission Specialist (MS) Mark N. Brown (left) and MS James F. Buchli 
  construct Middeck Zero ("0") Gravity Dynamics Experiment 01 (MODE-01) 
  structural test article (STA) on the middeck of the Earth-orbiting
  Discovery,  Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103.  STA will investigate the nonlinear
  dynamics of  truss structures.  Behind the astronaut team are the starboard
  wall-mounted  sleep restraints.  The airlock hatch appears at the right.                
  
  Subject terms:
  ASSEMBLING                              
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  CREW EXPERIMENT STATIONS                
  CREW PROCEDURES (INFLIGHT)              
  CREWS                                   
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  MIDDECK                                 
  ONBOARD ACTIVITIES                      
  SPACE STATION STRUCTURES                
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  STS-48                                  
  TOOLS                                   
  TRUSSES
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