NASA Photo ID: S82-39703          File Name: 10060932.jpg

Film Type: 35mm cn                Date Taken: 11/15/82

Title: Activities in the MOCR during STS-5 mission

Description:

Activities in the mission operations control room (MOCR) during STS-5 
mission. Flight controllers in the Mission operations control room (MOCR)
at  JSC's mission control center monitor audio from the Shuttle Columbia as
a  scence from the cargo bay shows on the large screen at front. They are 
waiting for the deployment of the ANIK C-3 satellite. Ground-controlled TV
on  this shift is the resonsibility of Granvil A. (Al) Pennington,
foreground,  integrated communication systems officer (INCO) (39703);
Flight Director John  T. Cox (second left) and Brock R. Stone (first left)
study data on the  monitor at the flight director console during Day 2 of
STS-5. An aft camera  in the cargo bay of the Columbia provides television
of the pre-deployment  procedures for Telesat Canada's ANIK C-3 satellite
(note image on large  screen in front of MOCR) (39704); Scott Thomas, a
freshman at Utah State  University, watches the television monitor in front
of him in the MOCR.  Astronaut Joseph P. Allen, STS-5 mission specialist,
conducts an experiment -  a study of convection in zero gravity - onboard
the Columbia. The experiment  is part of the student experiments program
and was conceived by Thomas. Also  at the payloads console with Thomas is
Robert M. Kelso, of the Flight  Operations Directorate. The stuffed mascot
for the payloads team, a kangaroo,  sits atop the payloads team console
(39705).