Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Collection
Name of Image:
Discovery (STS-56) landing
Full Description:
A four-million-mile journey draws to a flawless ending as the orbiter Discovery (STS-56) lands at Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility. Aboard for the second shuttle mission of 1993 were a crew of five and the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2 (ATLAS 2), the second in a series of missions to study the sun's energy output and Earth's middle atmosphere chemical make-up, and how these factors affect levels of ozone.
Date of Image:
1993-04-17
Category:
Space Shuttle Project
term:
Around Marshall
term:
STS Missions
term:
STS-56 landing
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Atlas
facet_what:
Atlas 2
facet_what:
Space Shuttle Orbiter
facet_where:
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
facet_where:
Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
facet_when:
1993
facet_when_year:
1993
Reference Number:
MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C
MIX #:
9304429
NIX #:
MSFC-9304429
MSFC Negative Number:
9304429
UID:
SPD-MARSH-9304429
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