STS060-09-016 - STS-060 - View of the Wake Shield Facility back dropped against the Southern Lights
Summary
The original finding aid described this as:
Description: As the Space Shuttle Discovery flew over a point between New Zealand and Australia, one of the STS-60 crew members used a 35mm camera to capture this image featuring three-fourths of the Ram side of the Wake Shield Facility (WSF) back dropped against the Southern Lights. The WSF was in the grasp of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) end effector (out of frame at right).
Subject Terms: WAKES, SHIELDING, REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, STS-60, DISCOVERY (ORBITER)
Date Taken: 2/26/1999
Categories: Shuttle Configuration
Interior_Exterior: Exterior
Ground_Orbit: On-orbit
Original: Film - 35MM CN
Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-60
Tags
Date
1999
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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