Chawla is photographed at the aft flight deck station controlling the RMS
STS087-357-019 (19 November - 5 December 1997) --- Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist, operates Columbia's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) on the aft flight deck during operations with the Spartan 201 satellite. Chawla joined four other astronauts and a Ukrainian payload specialist for 16-days of research in Earth-orbit in support of the United States Microgravity Payload 4 (USMP-4) mission.
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November 20, 1997
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