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STS064-66-023 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 being released from the RMS

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STS064-66-023 - STS-064 - SPARTAN 201 being released from the RMS

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Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN 201) being deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) during STS-64. SPARTAN 201, a free-flying payload, studied solar wind and the sun's corona when deployed from the orbiter. The view of SPARTAN 201 is interfered with by the reflection in the window through which the images were taken.

Subject Terms: STS-64, SPACE SHUTTLES, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), PAYLOAD BAY, REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS, PAYLOADS, SOLAR WIND, SOLAR CORONA

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 35MM CN

Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-64

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Date

1981 - 1989
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Source

The U.S. National Archives
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