NASA Photo ID: STS056-08-018       File Name: 10072697.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 04/17/93
  Title: STS-56 MS2 Cockrell with HERCULES camera at overhead window W8 on OV-103's FD
  Description:
  STS-56 Mission Specialist 2 (MS2) Kenneth D. Cockrell records Earth imagery 
  with the Hand-held, Earth-oriented, Real-time, Cooperative, User-friendly, 
  Location-targeting and Environmental System (HERCULES) 35mm camera. 
  Cockrell  is positioned under aft flight deck overhead window W8 with his
  back to the  onorbit station controls and aft flight deck viewing window
  W10.  HERCULES is  a device that makes it simple for Shuttle crewmembers to
  take pictures of  Earth, as they merely point a modified 35mm camera and
  shoot any interesting  feature, whose latitude and longitude are
  automatically determined in  real-time.  The powder-box shaped attachment
  is the HERCULES inertial  measurement unit (HIMU) with the Electronic Still
  Camera Electronic Box  (ESCEB) underneath it.  The STS-56 crew downlinked a
  number of the still  images during the flight, while others are likely to
  be stored on disc and  returned to Earth with the crew.         
  
  Subject terms:
  ASTRONAUTS                              
  CAMERAS                                 
  CREW OBSERVATION STATIONS               
  CREW PROCEDURES (INFLIGHT)              
  CREWS                                   
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  ELECTRO-OPTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY             
  ELECTRONIC STILL CAMERA                 
  FLIGHT DECK                             
  ONBOARD ACTIVITIES                      
  PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT                  
  STS-56                                  
  WINDOWS                                 
  

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