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NEUROLAB Alternate Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai manually locates the peroneal nerve on a subject's leg while Payload Specialist Jay Buckey observes.

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NEUROLAB alternate Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai trains on the Virtual Environment Generator (VEG) hardware in the Spacelab mockup. This hardware supports the investigation "Role of Visual Cues in Spatial Orientation".

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NEUROLAB Payload Specialist Jay Buckey retrieves support hardware from a locker. Mission Specialist Rick Linnehan trains on the Virtual Environment Generator (VEG). Mission Specialist Dave Williams prepares the rotator chair for operation with alternate Payload Specialist Alex Dunlap as the subject. The crew is training in the Spacelab mockup.

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NEUROLAB Mission Specialist Rick Linnehan ensures the head unit of the Visual and Vestibular Investigation System (VVIS) is properly configured for Payload Specialist Alex Dunlap during crew training in the Spacelab mockup.

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NEUROLAB Mission Specialist Dave Williams helps Alternate Payload Specialist Alex Dunlap with electrode placement of the Sleep Net. Both crewmembers are fully outfitted in the Respiratory Inductance Plethysmograph (RIP) Suit during crew training in the Middeck of the Space Shuttle Mockup.

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NEUROLAB Mission Specialist Dave Williams, wearing the Respiratory Inductance Plethysmograph (RIP) suit, configures the Astronaut Lung Function Experiment(ALFE) during crew training in the Spacelab Mockup.

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NEUROLAB Mission Specialist Dave Williams and Payload Specialist Jay Buckey, wearing the Respiratory Inductance Plethysmograph (RIP) suits, perform the Sleep protocol during crew training in the Spacelab Mockup.

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NEUROLAB Payload Specialist Jim Pawelczyk performs the Kinelite experiment protocol in the Spacelab Mockup.


 
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