NASA Photo ID: STS032-522-010      File Name: 10063475.jpg
  Film Type: 70mm                    Date Taken: 01/20/90
  Title: STS-32 photo survey of LDEF includes closeup of experiment tray
  Description:
  STS-32 onboard view shows one of many individual trays on the twelve-sided 
  bus-sized Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF).  This is the space end of 
  LDEF, which spent 5 1/2 years in Earth orbit before STS-32 retrieval.  In
  the  center is the experiment titled "Heavy Ions in Space" and was designed
  by  the Laboratory for Cosmic Ray Physics at the Naval Research Laboratory
  in  Washington, D.C.                
  Subject terms:
  COLUMBIA (ORBITER)                      
  LONG DURATION EXPOSURE FACILITY (LDEF)  
  METEORITIC DAMAGE                       
  SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  
  STS-32
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