NASA Photo ID: S93-36894           File Name: 10092993.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 06/21/93
  Title: STS-61 crew utilizing Virtual Reality in training for HST repair mission
  Description:
  Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman, one of four crewmembers for STS-61 that will
  conduct scheduled spacewalks during the flight, wears a special helmet and
  gloves designed to assist in proper positioning near the telescope while on
  the end of the robot arm. Crewmembers are utilizing a new virtual reality
  training aid which assists in refining positioning patterns for Space
  Shuttle Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) (36890); Astronaut
  Claude Nicollier looks at a computer display of the Shuttle's robot arm
  movements as Thomas D. Akers and Kathryn C. Thornton, mission specialists
  look on. Nicollier will be responsible for maneuvering the astronauts while
  they stand in a foot restraint on the end of the RMS arm (36891,36894);
  Hoffman wears a special helmet and gloves designed to assist in proper
  positioning near the telescope while on the end of the robot arm (35892);
  Nicollier looks at a computer display of the Shuttle's robot arm movements
  as Akers looks on (36893); While (l-r) Astronauts Kenneth Bowersox, Kathryn
  Thornton, Richard O. Covey and Thomas D. Akers watch, Nicollier moves the
  Robot arm to desired locations in the Shuttle's payload bay using the
  Virtual Reality program (36895); Bowersox takes his turn maneuvering the
  RMS while mission specialist Hoffman, wearing the Virtual Reality helmet,
  follows his own progress on the end of the robot arm. Crewmembers
  participating during the training session are (l-r) Astronauts Akers,
  Hoffman, Bowersox, Nicollier, Covey, and Thornton. In the background, David
  Homan, an engineer in the JSC Engineering Directorate's Automation and
  Robotics Division, looks on (36896).
  
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