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Astronaut Kalpana Chawla operating the RMS in Columbia

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-sts08-73004

Image Size 300 DPI: 24 * 16 cm

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.

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1997 - ASTRONAUT - CANADARM - CHAWLA KALPANA - COLUMBIA - HUMAN - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - ONBOARD ACTIVITY - ROBOTIC ARM - SPACE - SPACE SHUTTLE - SPACESHIP - SPARTAN-201 - STS-87 - WEIGHTLESSNESS - WOMAN - ZERO GRAVITY -