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

{captionsby}    Sherikon Space Systems (Paula Shawa, Susan Walsh and Chuck
                Weirauch)

{category}      SHUTTLE.sts-83

{date}          11-Mar-1997

{description}   STS-83 Mission Commander James D. Halsell, Jr. poses in the
                cockpit of his T-33 jet trainer aircraft after arriving at the
                KSC Shuttle Landing Facility along with other members of his crew
                for Terminal Countdown Demonstration (TCDT) exercises for that
                space flight. The Microgravity Science Laboratory-1 (MSL-1)
                Spacelab module is the primary payload on this 16-day mission.
                The MSL-1 will used to test some of the hardware, facilities and
                procedures that are planned for use on the International Space
                Station, while the seven-member crew conducts combustion, protein
                crystal growth and materials processing experiments.

{highres}       2254 x 1517

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{hightype}      JPEG

{keywords}      SHUTTLE,sts-83

{lasteditor}    <A HREF=http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/persons/other/jmd.html>J.
                Dumoulin</a>

{lowres}        320 x 215

{lowsize}       40929

{lowtype}       GIF

{mediumres}     1024 x 689

{mediumsize}    100188

{mediumtype}    JPEG

{number}        KSC-97PC-0413

{scannedby}     Bionetics and NASA/KSC Internet Lab (<A
                HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/persons/nasa-
                cm/jmd.html">Dumoulin</a>, <A
                HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/persons/nasa-
                cm/mtd.html">Downs</a>, <A
                HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/persons/nasa-
                cm/tnn.html">Nguyen</a> and <A
                HREF="http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/persons/nasa-cm/hec.html">Cody</a>)

{slideres}      172 x 149

{slidesize}     36929

{slidetype}     GIF

{tinyres}       100 x 67

{tinysize}      10224

{tinytype}      GIF

{title}         STS-83 Crew Arrival for TCDT

{type}          Image

{end}