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STS064-09-008 - STS-064 - Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment equipment

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Description: Photographic documentation of Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) equipment as seen through the Space Shuttle Discovery's aft flight deck window during STS-64. The SPIFEX was designed to study the characteristics and behavior of exhaust plumes from Discovery's Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters. Includes views of the SPIFEX equipment alone (002, 006-013); Mission Specialist Susan Helms standing by the window (003-004); and an excessively dark view of MS Helms standing by the window (005).

Subject Terms: STS-64, SPACE SHUTTLES, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, REACTION CONTROL SYSTEM, JETS, PLUMES, IMPINGEMENT, FLIGHT DECK, WINDOWS, ASTRONAUTS, ONBOARD EQUIPMENT

Categories: Crew Activities

Interior_Exterior: Interior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 35MM CN

Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-64

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Date

12/04/1981 - 21/07/2011
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Source

The U.S. National Archives
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