KSC-96EC-0780 - STS-78 Crew at Pad 39B during TCDT 


STS-78 flight crew members and their alternates pose in front of the
Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad 39B during a break in Terminal
Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities for that mission.  They
are (from left, standing) Alternate Payload Specialist Pedro Duque;
Pilot Kevin R. Kregel; Mission Specialist Charles E. Brady, Jr.;
Mission Commander Terence T. "Tom" Henricks; Mission Specialist
Richard M.  Linnehan; Alternate Payload Specialist Luca Urbani; and
Payload Specialist Jean-Jaques Favier.  Kneeling in the foreground are
Payload Specialist Robert D. Thirsk and Payload Commander Susan
J. Helms.  The TCDT includes a simulated full-scale countdown, crew
pad egress training and other activities.  During the nearly 16-day
mission, the seven-member crew will conduct 22 medical, materials and
physics investigations in the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS)
located in Columbia's payload bay.

 
                                               06/05/96