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Astronaut Charles L. (Lacy) Veach, one of six crewmembers assigned to fly aboard Columbia for the STS-52 mission, is assisted by two SCUBA-equipped divers during emergency bailout training at the Johnson Space Center's Weightless Environment Training Facility (WET-F). Veach is one of three mission specialists who in October will join a Canadian payload specialist and the mission's commander and pilot for ten-plus days of research and experimentation, as well as the deployment of the LAGEOS spacecraft, in Earth orbit