English: Official Portrait of the STS-9 crewmembers. Seated from left to right are Owen Garriott, mission specialist; Brewster Shaw, pilot; John Young, commander; and Robert Parker, mission Specialist. Standing from left to right are the payload specialists, Byron Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold.

• These six men represent the first crewmembers to man the Columbia when it gets reactivated later this year. The four NASA astronauts are joined by a European and MIT scientist payload specialist and the Spacelab module and experiment array for STS-9. On the front row are Astronauts Owen K. Garriott, mission specialist; Brewster H. Shaw, Jr., pilot; John W. Young, commander; and Robert A. R. Parker, mission specialist. Byron K. Lichtenberg of the Massachusetts of Technology, left and Ulf Merbold of the Republic of West Germany and the European Space Agency stand in front of an orbital scene featuring the Columbia. Columbia was used for the first five Space Transportation System missions in 1981 and 1982.