{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration (taken by
                Bionetics)

{captionsby}    Information Dynamics, Inc (Kay Grinter, Anita Barrett, and Elaine
                Liston)

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{date}          27-Apr-1999

{description}   At right, STS-96 Mission Specialist Tamara E. Jernigan (Ph.D.)
                practices driving the small armored personnel carrier that is
                part of emergency egress training during Terminal Countdown
                Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities. At left is Capt. Steve
                Kelly, with Space Gateway Support, who is assisting with the
                training. At the rear of the carrier are (left) Mission
                Specialist Julie Payette, with the Canadian Space Agency, and
                Commander Kent V. Rominger (right). The tracked vehicle could be
                used by the crew in the event of an emergency at the pad during
                which the crew must make a quick exit from the area. The TCDT
                also provides simulated countdown exercises and opportunities to
                inspect the mission payloads in the orbiter's payload bay. Other
                crew members taking part in the TCDT are Pilot Rick Douglas
                Husband, and Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa (Ph.D.), Daniel
                Barry (M.D., Ph.D.), and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, who is with
                the Russian Space Agency. Mission STS-96, which is scheduled for
                liftoff on May 20 at 9:32 a.m., is a logistics and resupply
                mission for the International Space Station, carrying such
                payloads as a Russian crane, the Strela; a U.S.-built crane; the
                Spacehab Oceaneering Space System Box (SHOSS), a logistics items
                carrier; and STARSHINE, a student-led experiment.

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{lasteditor}    <A HREF=http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/persons/nasa-
                cm/mtd.html>M.Downs</a>

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{title}         The STS-96 crew get emergency egress training as part of the TCDT

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