STS090-720-001 - STS-090 - Spacelab in STS-90 Columbia's payload bay

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: View of the dark Spacelab module and transfer tunnel in the STS-90 orbiter Columbia's payload bay with Earth limb in field of view. Also visible on the starboard side are the Shuttle Vibration Forces (SVF) experiment and G-197 - a test of a spaceflight prototype cooler for planetary mission instrument cooling and other applications. Visible on the port side are G-772 - Collisions into Dust Experiment (COLLIDE) and G-744 whose object is to take ozone measurements of the Earth's upper atmosphere in the Ultraviolet (UV) 200 nanometer to 400 nanometer spectral range using a Charge Coupled Device (CCD)-based spectrometer.

Subject Terms: EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE), STS-90, COLUMBIA (ORBITER), PAYLOAD BAY

Date Taken: 4/28/1998

Categories: Shuttle Configuration

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Preservation File Format: TIFF

geon: PACIFIC OCEAN

feat: PAN-CLOUDS, SUNGLINT

tilt: High Oblique

cldp: 95

nlat: 23.4

nlon: -139.8

azi: 81

alt: 137

elev: 17

STS-90

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1995

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