NASA Photo ID: STS048-10-023       File Name: 10065056.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 09/18/91
  Title: STS-48 MS Buchli with MODE-01 structural test article (STA) onboard OV-103
  Description:
  STS-48 Mission Specialist (MS) James F. Buchli displays the assembled
  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.  In its  deployed configuration (seen here), MODE-01 STA is 64
  by 8 by 8 inches.  It  contains nonlinear components, including a prototype
  of the space station  alpha joint (visible next to Buchli's hand). Behind
  Buchli are the starboard  wall-mounted sleep restraints.              
  
  Subject terms:
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  CREW EXPERIMENT STATIONS                
  CREW PROCEDURES (INFLIGHT)              
  CREWS                                   
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  JOINTS (JUNCTIONS)                      
  MIDDECK                                 
  ONBOARD ACTIVITIES                      
  SPACE STATION STRUCTURES                
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  STS-48                                  
  TRUSSES
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