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Backdropped against the darkness of space some 130 nautical miles above Earth, astronaut Mark C. Lee (red stripe on Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit) tests the new Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue (SAFER) system. Astronaut Carl J. Meade, tethered to the space shuttle Discovery, at bottom center, got his turn later using the new SAFER hardware. The scene was captured with a 70mm handheld Hasselblad camera operated by a fellow crew member in the shirt-sleeve environment of Discovery's cabin. The test is the first phase of a larger SAFER program leading eventually to a production version of the hardware for the shuttle and station programs. Part of the hardware for the LIDAR-in-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) is in left foreground.