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Date:	06/15/1992
Title:	Astronaut Assembly of a 14-Meter-Diameter Microwave Antenna
Description:	Astronaut Jerry Ross is shown assembling a portion of a 14-meter-diameter truss structure in NASAs Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The structure is part of a large microwave antenna designed for space-based monitoring of soil moisture levels and ocean temperatures. The underwater assembly tests demonstrated that two astronauts could construct the large antenna in approximately 4-6 hours in space.
ID:	EL-1996-00043
Other ID:	L92-7063
Media:	IMAGE
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