NASA Photo ID: STS034(S)025        File Name: 10063761.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) after it has
  cleared the launch  tower and as it begins its roll maneuver.   Exhaust
  smoke billows from the  SRBs and covers the launch pad and the surrounding
  area.  A water tower  is visible at the right.  Space shuttle main engine
  (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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