Space Shuttle Atlantis before launch at Pad 39, Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Orbiter 104 Atlantis is on Mission 51-J. Clouds in the background. The space shuttle is launched. Smoke rises in the sky.
Space Shuttle Atlantis before launch at Launch Pad 39, Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis is on Mission 51-J. Clouds in the background. The space shuttle is launched. Smoke rises in the sky.
Activities before Space Shuttle Atlantis launched at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Flight crew including Flight Commander Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karl J Bobko, Pilot Air Force Major Ronald Grabe and mission specialists Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Richard Mullane, Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stewart and Marine Captain David Hilmers leave Operations and Control building and leave in transfer van.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its maiden flight from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Crowd watches the lift-off as Atlantis embarks on its first flight. Space Shuttle Challenger is also seen parked in the foreground, approximately 4 months before its final tragic flight.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Cape Canaveral, Florida. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Orbiter 104 Atlantis on mission 51-J. Atlantis launched from Launch Pad 39. Space shuttle Atlantis in the sky after it gets launched. Smoke trails.
Grumman-built LEM (Lunar Excursion Module 1 or LM-1), a space vehicle for carrying astronauts onto the surface of the moon in the United States. Technicians work on the "LEM" as part of NASA Apollo program. The space car is being readied for shipment to NASA at Cape Kennedy. (Shown here is LM-1, which was the first of several excursion modules tested in advance of the actual use of the LEM for the manned landing on the moon with Apollo 11 in 1969.)
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