STS-72 Crew poses on Launch Pad 39B

[KSC-95PC-1803]

  • Photo Number: KSC-95PC-1803

  • Release Date: 12-Dec-1995

  • Keywords: SHUTTLE,sts-72
    • Description: The STS-72 flight crew poses on the Fixed Service Structure of Launch Pad 39B during a break in Terminal Countdown Demonstration (TCDT) exercises for that mission. They are (from left) Mission Specialists Winston E.Scott, Koichi Wakata and Daniel T. Barry; Mission Commander Brian Duffy; Pilot Brent Jett and Mission Specialist Larry Chiao. STS-72 is currently scheduled to lift off on the first mission of 1996 on Jan 11. During the 8-day, 22-hour space flight, the crew will retrieve the Japanese Space Flyer Unit (SFU) and deploy NASA's OAST- Flyer, which will carry four experiments while this self-contained spacecraft maintains its own orbit away from the orbiter Endeavour for about 50 hours.

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