NASA Photo ID: S90-42291           File Name: 10063904.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 07/03/90
  Title: STS-35 Columbia, OV-102, rolls back to KSC VAB after hydrogen leak discovered
  Description:
  Riding a column of light, Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, its external 
  tank (ET), and solid rocket boosters (SRBs), with a pastel dawn at their 
  back, roll back to the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Vehicle Assembly 
  Building (VAB).  This unusual photograph was created by using a zoom 
  technique that captured both actual and reflected light.  OV-102, moving
  east  to west, was on the move from KSC Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39A as the
  sun  crested over the seashore's horizon.  Following the rollback, OV-102
  was  demated from the ET and SRBs.  OV-102 was placed in KSC's Orbiter
  Processing  Facility (OPF) while engineers investigated the cause of a
  hydrogen leak that  stopped the STS-35 launch countdown during tanking
  05-29-90.             
  Subject terms:
  COLUMBIA (ORBITER)                      
  EXTERNAL TANKS                          
  LEAKAGE                                 
  MORNING                                 
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS                  
  STS-35                                  
  SUNLIGHT                                
  

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