Foto de stock - Dec. 12, 1977 - SPACE LAB CANDIDATES The long process of selecting Europeans to fly in Spacelab is now well underway, as now a short-list if 12 prime, scientists hap been drawn up from the earlier Lational candidate nominations, Of these 12, five will be offered to the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (EAU) en the European payload specialists, after undergoing intensive training in the States, one will fly in the first Spacelab mission in 1980, Selecting these five, however, is an enormously complex process of tests, and with the psychological assessments being made in Germany, the clinical and physical evaluations in France and Holland, b'ermany and the UK, ere all jointly to be Devolved in the lepocial teetinc'. Five of the potential astronauts hove thus recently arrived at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine at Farnborough. PHOTO SHOWS The group at Farnborough yesterday, the five candidates are (from the left) Dirk Frimout from Belgium; Franco Malerba from Italy; Rainer Schwenn from Germany; AneYChantal Levasneur-Ragourd from France; and ULF Merbold, another German. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)