STS-64 and 747-SCA Ferry Flight Takeoff (EC94-42750-6).jpg

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English: The Space Shuttle Discovery, mated to NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), takes to the air for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft, with a crew of six, was launched into a 57-degree high inclination orbit from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 3:23 p.m., 9 September 1994. The mission featured the study of clouds and the atmosphere with a laser beaming system called Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE), and the first untethered space walk in ten years. A Spartan satellite was also deployed and later retrieved in the study of the sun's corona and solar wind. The mission was scheduled to end Sunday, 18 September, but was extended one day to continue science work. Bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center on 19 September, forced a one-day delay to September 20, with a weather divert that day to Edwards. Mission commander was Richard Richards, the pilot Blaine Hammond, while mission specialists were Jerry Linenger, Susan Helms, Carl Meade, and Mark Lee.

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Taken on 26 September 1994

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NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center / NASA/Dennis Taylor

Keywords

Boeing; Kennedy Space Center; Shuttle Carrier Aircraft; Spacelab; NASA; IUS; Discovery; Rockwell; Rocketdyne; Martin Marietta; SCA; Thiokol; Space Shuttle; DC-9; 747; Inertial Upper Stage; Lockheed Martin; Dryden Flight Research Center

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Image title	The Space Shuttle Discovery, mated to NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), takes to the air for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft, with a crew of six, was launched into a 57-degree high inclination orbit from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 3:23 p.m., 9 September 1994. The mission featured the study of clouds and the atmosphere with a laser beaming system called Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE), and the first untethered space walk in ten years. A Spartan satellite was also deployed and later retrieved in the study of the sun's corona and solar wind. The mission was scheduled to end Sunday, 18 September, but was extended one day to continue science work. Bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center on 19 September, forced a one-day delay to September 20, with a weather divert that day to Edwards. Mission commander was Richard Richards, the pilot Blaine Hammond, while mission specialists were Jerry Linenger, Susan Helms, Carl Meade, and Mark Lee.
Author	NASA/Dennis Taylor
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Headline	STS-64 and 747-SCA Ferry Flight Takeoff
Date and time of data generation	26 September 1994
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File change date and time	15:12, 6 July 2017
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Keywords	Space Shuttle NASA Spacelab IUS Inertial Upper Stage Rockwell Rocketdyne Boeing Thiokol Martin Marietta Lockheed Martin Dryden Flight Research Center Kennedy Space Center DC-9 Discovery 747 SCA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
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