NASA Photo ID: S82-39699          File Name: 10060950.jpg

Film Type: 35mm b&w               Date Taken: 11/14/82

Title: Day 4 activities in the MOCR during STS-5 mission

Description:

Day 4 activities in the mission operations control room (MOCR) during STS-5 
mission. Scott Thomas, a freshman at Utah State University, watches the 
television monitor in front of him in the mission operations control room 
(MOCR) at JSC's mission control center. 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.