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Astronaut Kalpana Chawla operating the RMS in Columbia

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-sts08-73004

Date

2006-05-07

Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist, operates the Space Shuttle Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (Canadarm) on the aft flight deck during operations with the Spartan 201 satellite. She joined four other astronauts and a Ukrainian payload specialist for 16-days of research in Earth-orbit in support of the United States Microgravity Payload 4 (USMP-4) mission. Nov/Dec 1997.