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Mission Specialist Bonnie Dunbar and Payload Specialist Lawrence DeLucas in the spacelab with the Lower Body Negative Pressure Study. DeLucas is encased in the suit and Dunbar is administering and overseeing the procedure

STS-50 LBNP study

STS050-291-017 (25 June-9 July 1992) --- Astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar, STS-50 payload commander, monitors a test being run on Lawrence J. DeLucas, payload specialist, in the Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP) apparatus in the Science Module aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. DeLucas points to the title on the Glovebox\Protein Crystal Growth (GBX/PCG) Notebook to draw attention to his role with those United States Microgravity Laboratory 1 (USML-1) elements. The two joined four other NASA astronauts and a second scientist from the private sector for a record 14-days of science data gathering aboard Columbia in support of the USML-1.

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