NASA Photo ID: S85-42473          File Name: 10062302.jpg

Film Type: 70mm cn                Date Taken: 10/16/85

Title: Teacher in Space trainees on the KC-135 for zero-G training

Description:

Teacher in Space trainees on the KC-135 for zero-G training. Sharon Christa 
McAuliffe, right, and Barbara R. Morgan, team up with Bob Mayfield, a JSC 
aerospace educations specialist, to preview some experiments in zero-G. 
McAuliffe, prime crewmember, injects a hydroponic solution into a cylinder
to  review one of the experiments for the flight (42470); McAuliffe
experiences a  few moments of weightlessness provided by the KC-135. She
and Mayfield are  previewing a molecular mixing experiment which was
designed to demonstrate  differences of separation process in one-G and
zero-G (42471); McAuliffe and  Morgan play leap-frog in the temporary
weightlessness of the KC-135 (42472);  McAuliffe is seated near the
controls of the KC-135 aircraft (42473);  McAuliffe (center frame) and
Morgan, her backup, monitor an experiment  involving magnetic effects. The
experiment uses a control box, a square  receptical containing rubber
tubing, stainless steel rod, a filter with  desiccant, soft iron wire and a
magnet (42474).