Astronauts for the first space shuttle mission, Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen, take a break from their intensive training schedule to pose for pictures in the flight deck of the shuttle Columbia.
Astronauts for the first space shuttle mission, Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen, take a break from their intensive training schedule to pose for pictures in the flight deck of the shuttle Columbia. The astronauts are wearing their ejection escape suits, which were worn only during the orbital flight test program and during the launch and landing phases of the mission.
Image credit: NASA
Oct. 1, 1980