File:STS-3 launch.jpg

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Summary

NASA Photo ID:

S82-28746

Program:
Shuttle

Mission:
STS-3

Date Taken:
March 24, 1982

Film Type:
4x5

Title:
Launch views of the Columbia for the STS-3 mission

Description:

The Space Shuttle Columbia, with its two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) and external fuel tank (ET) are photographed as they clear the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39. The external tank is unpainted for the first time.

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