Stock Photo - 04/27/1999 ___ STS_96 Mission Specialist Julie Payette right practices driving a small armored personnel carrier that is part of emergency egress training during Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test TCDT activities. The tracked vehicle could be used by the crew in the event of an emergency at the pad during which the crew must make a quick exit from the area. The TCDT also provides simulated countdown exercises and opportunities to inspect the mission payloads in the orbiter´s payload bay. At left are Mission Specialist Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, with the Russian Space Agency, and Pilot Rick Douglas Husband. Payette is with the Canadian Space Agency. Riding on the front of the carrier is Capt. Steve Kelly, with Space Gateway Support, who is assisting the crew with their training. Other crew members are Commander Kent V. Rominger and Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa Ph.D., Tamara E. Jernigan Ph.D., and Daniel Barry M.D., Ph.D.. Mission STS_96 is a logistics and resupply mission for the International Space Station, carrying such payloads as a Russian crane, the Strela, a U.S._built crane, the Spacehab Oceaneering Space System Box SHOSS, a logistics items carrier, and STARSHINE, a student_led experiment

Stock Photo: 04/27/1999 --- STS-96 Mission Specialist Julie Payette right practices driving a small armored personnel carrier that is part of emergency egress training.

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