NASA Photo ID: S93-26223           File Name: 10072663.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 01/25/93
  Title: STS-56 crewmembers participate in emergency egress (bailout) in JSC's WETF
  Description:
  STS-56 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, crewmember, wearing launch and 
  entry suit (LES) and launch and entry helmet (LEH), is suspended by his 
  parachute harness over JSC's Weightless Environment Training Facility
  (WETF)  Bldg 29 pool during launch emergency egress (bailout) exercises. 
  Equipped  with an underarm flotation device and dark goggles (to simulate
  night  lighting conditions), the crewmember waits to be dropped in the
  water below.   This simulation prepares the astronauts for the event of an
  emergency egress  and subsequent water landing during launch.  In the
  background and walking  along the poolside is Pilot Stephen S. Oswald.             
  
  Subject terms:
  ASTRONAUT TRAINING                      
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  CREWS                                   
  EGRESS                                  
  EMERGENCIES                             
  FLOTATION                               
  GOGGLES                                 
  HARNESSES                               
  HELMETS                                 
  LAUNCH AND ENTRY SUIT                   
  PARACHUTES                              
  SPACE FLIGHT TRAINING                   
  STS-56                                  
  WATER LANDING                           
  

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