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Crippen, pilot for STS-1, during a training session
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S79-25014 (13 Dec. 1978) --- Astronaut Robert L. Crippen, pilot of the first space shuttle orbital flight test (STS-1), eases into a water immersion facility (WIF) during a training session in the Johnson Space Center?s training and test facility (Bldg. 260). The WIF affords one of two ways to simulate the feeling of weightlessness experienced during space extravehicular activity (EVA), the other being inside aircraft flying a parabolic curve. Crippen will be joined by astronaut John W.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineCrippen, pilot for STS-1, during a training session. NASA/JSC, 1978-03-22. Public domain. ID: S79-25014.
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