STS063-25-009 - STS-063 - SPARTAN-204 on the RMS arm

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STS063-25-009 - STS-063 - SPARTAN-204 on the RMS arm

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The original finding aid described this as:

Description: Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy-204 (SPARTAN-204) on the Space Shuttle Discovery's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm during STS-63. SPARTAN-204 is a free-flying payload that was designed to study interstellar gas and dust.

Subject Terms: SPACE SHUTTLES,DISCOVERY (ORBITER),STS-63,SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS,REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM,SPARTAN SATELLITES

Date Taken: 6/9/1997 0:00

Categories: Payloads

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Original: Film - 35MM CN

Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-63

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Date

1997

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Source

The U.S. National Archives

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Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/

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