NASA Photo ID: S90-38108           File Name: 10063908.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 05/22/90
  Title: Artist concept of STS-35 ASTRO-1 & BBXRT in Columbia's, OV-102's, payload bay
  Description:
  Artist concept shows STS-35 Astronomy Laboratory 1 (ASTRO-1) and Broad Band 
  X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT) in Columbia's, OV-102's, payload bay (PLB). 
  ASTRO-1  spacelab pallet in the forward PLB includes three ultraviolet
  telescopes -  Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), Wisconsin Ultraviolet
  Photo-Polarimeter  Experiment (WUPPE), and Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
  (UIT) - mounted on the  instrument pointing system (IUS).  In the aft PLB
  is the BBXRT mounted on a  two-axis pointing system (TAPS).  ASTRO-1
  instruments will explore the  invisible ultraviolet and x-ray universe in
  greater depth and detail than  ever before.  Like ground observatories,
  this new facility will be used by  scientists to investigate a variety of
  astronomical questions.  Ultraviolet  and x-ray observations will identify
  hot and energetic sources in the  Universe, including astronomical targets
  within the solar system; individual  stars, stellar systems, and nebulae;
  and distant galactic systems, quasars,  and clusters of galaxies.  Drawing
  done by Randy Van Nostrand and provided by  the Marshall Space Flight
  Center (MSFC) with alternate number 8911182.        
  
  Subject terms:
  ASTRO MISSIONS (STS)                    
  COLUMBIA (ORBITER)                      
  PAYLOAD BAY                             
  SPACEBORNE ASTRONOMY                    
  SPACELAB                                
  STS-35                                  
  ULTRAVIOLET TELESCOPES                  
  VISUAL AIDS                             
  X RAY ASTRONOMY                         
  X RAY TELESCOPES                        
  

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