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Dressed in his orange launch and entry spacesuit, STS-86 Mission Specialist Jean-Loup J.M. Chretien of the French Space Agency, CNES, participates in Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities at Launch Pad 39A ca. 1997
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Dressed in his orange launch and entry spacesuit, STS-86 Mission Specialist Jean-Loup J.M. Chretien of the French Space Agency, CNES, participates in Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) activities at Launch Pad 39A. The first Frenchman to fly in space, Chretien served twice as a research-cosmonaut on Russian missions; STS-86 will be his first flight on the Space Shuttle. STS-86 will be the seventh docking of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir. Liftoff of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Mission STS-86 is targeted for Sept. 25
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Date
Sep 10, 1997
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Photo12/Universal Images Group
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UMG22A40_120
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