STS085-338-008 - STS-085 - MFD, documentation of aft flight deck WS and payload bay

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STS085-338-008 - STS-085 - MFD, documentation of aft flight deck WS and payload bay

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Description: Mission Specialist Jan Davis, wearing Japanese headband, works at the Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD) experiment Aft flight deck workstation (WS).

Subject Terms: STS-85, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), ASTRONAUTS, FLIGHT DECK, WORKSTATIONS, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, MANIPULATORS, PAYLOAD BAY, COMPUTERS

Date Taken: 8/29/1997

Categories: Shuttle Configuration

Interior_Exterior: Interior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 35MM CN

Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-85

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