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STS-84: Crewtraining
- Video Tape only
- Title STS-84: Crewtraining
- Released: 04/01/1997
- Language Natural Sound
- Footage Type
- Copyright ESA
- Description
The STS-84 Atlantis mission will be launched on May 15th 1997. Atlantis is scheduled to carry out the sixth docking with the Russian space station Mir, exchanging crew members, delivering supplies and testing new technologies. ESA astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy, from France, will make his second trip into space on this mission.
This video demonstrates some of the pre-flight training exercises undertaken in preparation for the mission. the footage is organised as follows:
CCT BAILOUT TRAINING: crew get into orange suits, shuttle simulator; Clervoy climbs stairs; the Russian cosmonaut Elena Kandakova tests deployment mechanism on simulator; Kandakova has helmet adjusted, discusses suit with Clervoy; crew ""eject"" from simulator, including dummy crew member (01:03:30:00 - 01:17:00:00).
EVA PREPARATION: shuttle simulator, Clervoy discusses safety harness with other crew member; getting into suits, suits inflated (01:17:30:00 - 01:24:58:00).
POST-INSERTION OPERATIONS: crew in orange suits, flight deck simulation;Not available