NASA Photo ID: S86-30339          File Name: 10062456.jpg

Film Type: 35mm b&w               Date Taken: 04/08/86

Title: Analysis of data on MADS recorder tape from the STS 51-L Challenger

Description:

Analysis of data from the modular auxiliary data system (MADS) recorder
tape  from the STS 51-L Challenger following delivery from Marshall Space
Flight  Center (MSFC). Larue Forbes of CSC retrieves one of the MADS tapes
for  inputting into a nearby computer in the central data office (30336);
Digital  data from the MADS tape is sent from Larue Forbes terminal to a
hard copy  printer in another facility at JSC (30337); Carolyn Watson of
Lockheed  recieves a hard copy print-out of data from the MADS recorder as
it is being  sent form the termainal in JSC's central data office (30338);
Stan Williams  (left) of Lockheed and Luther D. Palmer of NASA are pictured
with the MADS  tape in JSC's central data office (30339); Larue Forbes of
CSC prepares to  put one of the MADS tape onto one of the central data
office's computers  (30340).