Rare view of two space shuttles on adjacent KSC Launch Complex (LC) 39 pads
S90-48650 (5 Sept 1990) --- This rare view shows two space shuttles on adjacent pads at Launch Complex 39 with the Rotating Service Structures (RSR) retracted. Space Shuttle Columbia (foreground) is on Pad A where it awaits further processing for a September 6 early morning launch on STS-35. Discovery, its sister spacecraft, is set to begin preparations for an October liftoff on STS-41 when the Ulysses spacecraft is scheudled to be taxied into space. PLEASE NOTE: Following the taking of this photograph, STS-35 was postponed and STS-41's Discovery was successfully launched on Oct. 6.
- Date
- 1990-09-05
- Collection
- JSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
Public domainsafest
Reason: a NASA work: not copyrighted in the United States.
Read from: NASA media usage guidelines: NASA material is not copyrighted in the US unless noted; no third-party credit or mark found.
Credit line
"Rare view of two space shuttles on adjacent KSC Launch Complex (LC) 39 pads" (1990-09-05). NASA/JSC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/S90-48650Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 84749.
More like this
KSC-90PC-0610
1990-04-24 · NASA Image and Video Library
STS-35 Columbia, OV-102, passes STS-38 Atlantis, OV-104, heading to Pad 39A
1990-08-22 · NASA Image and Video Library
STS-31 Discovery, OV-103, liftoff from KSC
1990-04-24 · NASA Image and Video Library
STS-41 Discovery, OV-103, lifts off from KSC Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39
1990-10-06 · NASA Image and Video Library
KSC-08pd2737
2008-09-20 · NASA Image and Video Library
KSC-08pd2735
2008-09-20 · NASA Image and Video Library
KSC-08pd2731
2008-09-20 · NASA Image and Video Library
KSC-2009-2763
2009-04-18 · NASA Image and Video Library