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STS-52 deployment of LAGEOS / IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay (PLB)
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STS052-80-024 (23 Oct 1992) --- One of a series of three views of the deployment of the Laser Geodynamic Satellite (LAGEOS). The photograph was taken with a 70mm handheld camera aimed through the aft flight deck windows of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. A crew of five NASA astronauts and a Canadian payload specialist spent ten days aboard Columbia for the STS-52 mission.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSTS-52 deployment of LAGEOS / IRIS spacecraft from OV-102's payload bay (PLB). NASA/JSC, 1992-10-23. Public domain. ID: sts052-80-024.
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