| NASA Center: |
Kennedy Space Center |
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| Image # : |
94PC-1387 |
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| Date : |
11/3/1994
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Title
STS-66 Launch
Full Description
Hundreds of birds scatter as the typical quiet reverie of their day is
temporarily broken by the roar of a Space Shuttle surging off the pad. The
orbiter Atlantis returned to space after an approximately two-year absence with
a liftoff from Launch Pad 39B at 11:59:43 a.m. EST.
The planned 11-day flight of Space Shuttle Mission STS-66 will continue NASA's
Mission to Planet Earth, a comprehensive international collaboration to study
how Earth's environment is changing and how human beings affect that change.
Primary payloads for the last Shuttle flight of 1994 include the Atmospheric
Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-3), making its third flight, and
the German-built Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the
Atmosphere-Shuttle Pallet Satellite (CRISTA-SPAS), which will be deployed and
later retrieved during the mission.
Mission commander is Donald R. McMonagle; Curtis L. Brown Jr. is the pilot;
Ellen Ochoa is the payload commander, and the three mission specialists are
Joseph R. Tanner, Scott E. Parazynski, and Jean-Francois Clervoy, a French
citizen who is with the European Space Agency.
Keywords
Atlantis STS-66 Launch
Subject Category
Space Shuttle, Earth Science, Rocket Launches,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
KSC
- Center Number:
94PC-1387
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000763
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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