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Flight controllers in the JSC mission control center watch television transmissions of Discovery's rendezvous...
Arabsat communications satellite deploying from Discovery's payload bay. Cloudy Earth's surface can be seen to the...
51I-32-023 (27 Aug. 1985) --- Australia's AUSSAT communications satellite is deployed from the payload bay of the...
Telstar 3-D communications satellite deploying from Discovery's payload bay. Cloudy Earth's surface can be seen to...
51I-32-059 (27 August 1985) --- The American Satellite Company (ASC) communications satellite rises from the cargo...
View of the Syncom-IV (LEASAT) satellite from the flight deck window taken by Astronaut S. David Griggs.
51A-104-049 (14 Nov. 1984) --- Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second...
Spartan I satellte sits in the Discovery's payload bay prior to being deployed. Above it can be seen the remote...
The STS-32 patch, designed by the five crewmembers for the scheduled December 1989 space mission, depicts the Space...
The STS-51 crew portrait features (left to right): Frank L. Culbertson, commander; Daniel W. Bursch, mission...
51I-44-081 (1 Sept 1985) --- Astronaut James D. van Hoften on the Discovery's remote manipulator system (RMS) arm...
Astronat Dale A. Gardner achieves a hard dock with the previously spinning Westar VI satellite. Gardner uses a...
51I-41-086 (1 September 1985) --- Astronaut James D. van Hoften, mission specialist, flexes his muscles in...
51I-S-237 (1 Sept. 1985) --- A still photo made from a video downlink shows astronaut James D. van Hoften, just...
51I-44-014 (31 Aug-1 Sept. 1985) --- This photograph is one of a series of six covering extravehicular activity...
51A-104-008 (14 Nov 1984) --- Astronaut Dale A. Gardner appears to be under the remote manipulator system (RMS) end...
51I-102-029 (31 August - 1 September 1985) --- This is one of a series of six photographs released by NASA covering...
51I-102-033 (31 August - 1 September 1985) --- This is one of a series of six photographs released by NASA covering...
The Space Shuttle Discovery en route to Earth orbit for NASA's 51-A mission is reminiscent of a soaring Eagle. The...
51I-44-012 (1 Sept. 1985) --- Astronaut James D. van Hoften looks on as the Syncom IVC-3 satellite responds to his...
S84-40162 (21 Aug. 1984) --- Astronaut Anna L. Fisher controls the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm from inside...
51I-102-048 (4-5 Sept 1985) --- A 35mm frame showing astronaut William F. Fisher standing on the edge of Discovery's...
S84-40148 (8 Oct. 1984) --- The space shuttle Discovery en route to Earth orbit for NASA's 51-A mission is...