IMAGE 400_499\479.Lbm,Emblem for Spacelab 2 mission (STS-51F).
IMAGE 100_199\174.Lbm,This cutaway picture shows the shuttle orbiter with Spacelab in the payload bay. This configuration of Spacelab comprises the pressurized long module and pallets.
IMAGE 800_899\811.Lbm,A typical configuration for Spacelab, with the two-segment pressurized laboratory and instrument pallet.
IMAGE 0_99\89.Lbm,Spacelab is lowered into the payload bay of Columbia ready for its maiden flight, scheduled for November 1983. At left is the pressurized laboratory; at right the open pallets.
IMAGE 0_99\87.Lbm,Checking over Spacelab before its first mission are Spacelab 1 astronauts Ulf Merbold (left) and Owen Garriott.
IMAGE 700_799\700.Lbm,An 'X-ray' picture of Columbia showing Spacelab 1 in the payload bay. It was produced by a double exposure technique.
IMAGE 800_899\896.Lbm,The Spacelab 1 crew busy at work inside the laboratory module. ESA astronaut Ulf Merbold is on the left.
IMAGE 100_199\106.Lbm,Working intently in the laboratory module on the STS-9/Spacelab 1 mission in November 1983 is West German scientist Ulf Merbold.
IMAGE 500_599\530.Lbm,On the Spacelab D1 mission (STS-61A) in October 1985, ESA astronaut Wubbo Ockels is wired up for the space sled experiment.
IMAGE 500_599\536.Lbm,On the Spacelab D1 mission (STS-61A) US astronaut Guion Bluford (left) is working in Spacelab with ESA's Rheinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid.
IMAGE 700_799\701.Lbm,ESA astronaut Reinhard Furrer bares his arm for bloodletting for space medicine experiments on STS-61A/Spacelab D1.
IMAGE 100_199\140.Lbm,Astronauts on STS-51B/Spacelab 3 were treated to a glorious display of aurora, uniquely looking at it from above.
IMAGE 500_599\535.Lbm,On the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B) William Thornton is pictured with a fellow primate passenger, a squirrel monkey. The monkey is wondering why Dr Thornton is upside-down.
IMAGE 800_899\850.Lbm,Don Lind works in Spacelab on the STS-51B/Spacelab 3 mission.
IMAGE 1300_99\332.Lbm,Spacelab in orbit in Endeavour's payload bay, carrying ESA's Spacelab emblem on the left and the mission emblem on the right. (STS-47)
IMAGE 1300_99\336.Lbm,Mae Jemison, making her first space flight, enjoying the sensation of weightlessness inside Spacelab. (STS-47)
IMAGE 1300_99\337.Lbm,The two female astronauts on the Spacelab J mission, Jan Davis (left) and Mae Jemison, prepare the lower body negative pressure device. (STS-47)
IMAGE 800_899\881.Lbm,Work forges ahead on Spacelab modules inside the operations and checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center in the summer of 1984, one of the busiest years in shuttle history.
IMAGE 1800_99\816.Lbm,A Spacelab card game. Four of the crew relax by playing cards on the 'ceiling' of the laboratory module. From the left, they are: Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg.
IMAGE 1900_99\973.Lbm,Equipment mounted on the Spacelab pallet, being prepared for the first Spacelab mission, Spacelab 1, on STS-9 in November 1983.
