IMA space mission
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFMCNS) -- Col. Mike Fossum prepares for a space shuttle mission inside a National Aeronautics and Space Administration water filled chamber. The chamber is used to simulate the weightless conditions the colonel will experience during a mission in May 2006. The senior individual mobilization augmentee in Aeronautical Systems Center's F-16 Systems Group, Colonel Fossum was selected for astronaut training in 1998. (NASA photo)