NASA Photo ID: STS046(S)076        File Name: 10064824.jpg
  Film Type: 120mm                   Date Taken: 08/08/92
  Title: STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39
  Description:
  STS-46 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, lifts off from Kennedy Space 
  Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39 at 9:56:47:976 am Eastern Daylight 
  Time (EDT).  OV-104, atop the external tank (ET) and flanked by solid
  rocket  boosters (SRBs), rises above the mobile launcher platform. The
  fixed service  structure (FSS) tower appears at the left.  An exhaust cloud
  forms around the  launch pad area.  The diamond shock effect is visible at
  the space shuttle  main engines (SSMEs).               
  
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  CAPE KENNEDY LAUNCH COMPLEX             
  EXHAUST CLOUDS                          
  EXTERNAL TANKS                          
  FLORIDA                                 
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
  LAUNCHING PADS                          
  LIFTOFF (LAUNCHING)                     
  SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS                  
  STS-46                                  
  TOWERS
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