Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria during bailout training

S95-09131 (27 Apr. 1995) --- Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, mission specialist, watches as one his seven STS-73 crew mates (out of frame) rehearses action necessary in the case of an emergency with the Space Shuttle. The crew mate uses (and Lopez-Alegria later used) a Sky-genie device to rappel from the top of a ?troubled Shuttle? during emergency egress training exercises in the Systems Integration Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC).