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KSC-99pp0970
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — A crane is lowered over the payload canister with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) inside in Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 2. The primary payload on STS-99, the SRTM will soon be lifted out of the canister and installed into the payload bay of the orbiter Endeavour. The SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will gather data for the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface that has ever been assembled.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-99pp0970. NASA/KSC, 1999-07-21. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pp0970.
