NASA Photo ID: S85-41246          File Name: 10062500.jpg

Film Type: 35mm cn                Date Taken: 09/27/85

Title: STS 61-A crew during emergency egress training

Description:

STS 61-A crew during emergency egress training. Henry W. Hartsfield Jr.,
STS  61-A mission commander, uses a Sky-Genie to practice emergency egress
from a  Shuttle vehicle. This training was held in the Shuttle mockup and
integration  laboratory (41244); Ernst Messerschmid, German payload
specialist, goes  through a rehearsal of procedures involved in preparing
for launch and  landing aboard the Shuttle. Briefing Messerschmid is Alan
N. Rochford  (41245); Descending from a simulated Shuttle orbiter, using a
Sky-Genie  device, is Astronaut Henry M. Hartsfield, Jr. Watching in blue
flight  garments are other members of the crew. They are, left to right,
Ernst  Messerschmid, German payload specialist; James F. Buchli, mission
specialist;  Bonnie J. Dunbar, mission specialist; Wubbo J. Ockels, Dutch
payload  specialist.