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  • "One of the things for first-time fliers is to come up and look out the window," Mr. Grunsfeld said, meaning from the middeck, where the mission specialists sit during launch and entry, to the flight deck.

    Found in Space Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • "It's a kind of cycle in the middeck that we all use to keep in shape," shuttle astronaut John Phillips said late Monday after trying to get the space bike up and running.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Mish 2009

  • Prior to this, I worked for a University researcher flying biotechnology experiments on the Shuttle middeck and witnessed six Shuttle launches and a landing.

    All Aboard the Shuttle Launch Junket - NASA Watch 2007

  • "It's a kind of cycle in the middeck that we all use to keep in shape," shuttle astronaut John Phillips said late Monday after trying to get the space bike up and running.

    Exercise in Space! Mish 2009

  • As such, it is somewhat disconcerting to read a recollection wherein O'Connor talks about adding a combination lock to Space Shuttle Columbia's middeck hatch on STS-40 in 1991 due to concerns over the competency of several payload specialists.

    NASA Watch: Safety: February 2007 Archives 2007

  • As such, it is somewhat disconcerting to read a recollection wherein O'Connor talks about adding a combination lock to Space Shuttle Columbia's middeck hatch on STS-40 in 1991 due to concerns over the competency of several payload specialists.

    NASA Watch: Shuttle News: February 2007 Archives 2007

  • As such, it is somewhat disconcerting to read a recollection wherein O'Connor talks about adding a combination lock to Space Shuttle Columbia's middeck hatch on STS-40 in 1991 due to concerns over the competency of several payload specialists.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: February 2007 Archives 2007

  • Editor's note: If you look at the left hand side of this image dated Monday, 11 December, you will see an iPod and a Belkin external battery pack velcroed to a panel next to the Discovery's toilet located in the Shuttle's middeck.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: December 2006 Archives 2006

  • Editor's note: If you look at the left hand side of this image dated Monday, 11 December, you will see an iPod and a Belkin external battery pack velcroed to a panel next to the Discovery's toilet located in the Shuttle's middeck.

    NASA Watch: Shuttle News: December 2006 Archives 2006

  • That could mean a crew-escape system might be revived, he said, because taking astronauts off the shuttle's middeck opens up the possibility of using some kind of ejector seat.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: March 2003 Archives 2003

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