NASA Photo ID: STS034(S)023        File Name: 10063759.jpg
  Film Type: 70mm                    Date Taken: 10/23/89
  Title: STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39B
  Description:
  STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, lifts off from Kennedy Space 
  Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B at 12:53:39:983 pm Eastern
  Daylight  Time (EDT).  OV-104 atop its external tank (ET) and flanked by
  two solid  rocket boosters (SRBs) is nearly clear of the launch tower as
  exhaust smoke  covers the launch pad.  The liftoff marks the beginning of a
  five-day mission  in space.                
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  CAPE KENNEDY LAUNCH COMPLEX             
  EXHAUST CLOUDS                          
  EXTERNAL TANKS                          
  LAUNCHING PADS                          
  LIFTOFF (LAUNCHING)                     
  SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS                  
  STS-34                                  
  TOWERS
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