COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Kennedy Center Media Archive Collection
Record
Description:
Perched on the Mobile Launch Platform, in the early morning hours Space Shuttle Discovery approaches Launch Complex Pad 39B after a 6-hour, 4.2-mile trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building. At the launch pad, the orbiter, external tank and solid rocket boosters will undergo final preparations for the launch, scheduled to lift off Oct. 29. The mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process
Release Date:
09/21/1998
Photo Credit:
NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Release:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
facet_what:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
facet_where:
Florida
facet_when:
09-21-1998
facet_when_year:
1998
Photo Number:
KSC-98PC-1103
UID:
SPD-KSCMA-KSC-98PC-1103
