NASA Photo ID: S92-35770           File Name: 10065181.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 05/13/92
  Title: STS-49 INTELSAT VI-R WETF exercise with astronauts Musgrave, Clifford, Voss
  Description:
  STS-49 Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, International
  Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) VI-R simulation at
  JSC's Weightless  Environment Training Facility (WETF) Bldg 29 was
  conducted with  extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) suited astronauts F.
  Story Musgrave,  Michael R. U. Clifford, and James S. Voss.  Astronauts
  practiced a three  person extravehicular activity (EVA) procedure for
  INTELSAT capture.  Ground  based exercises were conducted after five failed
  INTELSAT capture attempts  during the STS-49 mission.  In this underwater
  group portrait, eleven  SCUBA-equipped divers pose with the three trouble
  shooting astronauts.   Astronauts are (left to right) Clifford, Musgrave,
  and Voss.  Test results  provided input for orbiting STS-49 crewmembers on
  possible alternate INTELSAT  capture procedures.  Three OV-105 astronauts
  will attempt to capture the  INTELSAT again on 05-13-92.  Portrait made by
  NASA JSC contract photographer  Scott A. Wickes.        
  
  Subject terms:
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  DIVERS                                  
  EXTRAVEHICULAR MOBILITY UNITS           
  INTELSAT SATELLITES                     
  MOCK-UP                                 
  NEUTRAL BUOYANCY SIMULATION             
  PAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT & RETRIEVAL SYSTEM   
  PAYLOAD RETRIEVAL (STS)                 
  PORTRAIT                                
  REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM               
  SIMULATION                              
  STS-49                                  
  WEIGHTLESS ENVIRONMENT TRAINING         
  

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