NASA Photo ID: S82-28457

Date Taken: 03/17/82

Members of the JSC astronaut corps, STS-3 vehicle integration test (VIT) team  and other personnel pose for photograph at the completion of a countdown  demonstration test (CDDT) and safety briefings at Launch Pad 39A, Kennedy  Space Center. Participants are, from the left, Wilbur J. Etbauer, engineer  with the VIT team; George W.S. Abbey, Director of Flight Operations at JSC;  Astronaut John H. Young, Chief of the Astronaut Office at JSC; Jack Fleming  of Rockwell International; Mission Specialist-Astronaut John M. Lounge;  Astronaut Daniel C. Brandenstein; Mission Specialist-Astronaut James D. Van  Hoften; Astronauts C. Gordon Fullerton and Jack Lousma, prime crew for STS-3;  Olan J. Bertrand, VIT team member; Mission Specialist-Astronaut Kathryn D.  Sullivan; Richard W. Nygren, head of the VIT team; and Astronaut Donald E.  Williams. The Columbia is obscured by its service structure on Launch Pad 39A  in the background. Part of slide-wire emergency escape system is visible in  the picture.