NASA Photo ID: STS034(S)024        File Name: 10063760.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).  This distant view shows OV-104 atop its external
  tank (ET) and  flanked by two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) as it clears the
  launch tower.    Exhaust smoke billows from the SRBs and covers the launch
  pad.  Space  shuttle main engine (SSME) exhaust is also visible.  The
  launch tower fixed  service structure (FSS) appears just under the rising
  shuttle with the  rotating service structure (RSS) retracted at the left. 
  SSME and SRB glow is  reflected in a nearby waterway. 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                                  
  WATERWAYS                               
  

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