NASA Space Shuttle STS-30 Official NASA Launch Photo (Atlantis) For Sale
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NASA Space Shuttle STS-30 Official NASA Launch Photo (Atlantis): $8.00
Official NASA launch photo of STS 30. Orbiter was Atlantis. Crew of 5. Liftoff was May 4, 1989 and return to earth was May 8, 1989. Description on reverse of photo: \"Atlantis is launched from Pad 39B at 2:46 pmest carrying into low Earth orbit the Spacecraft Magellan. The STS-30 crew will deploy Magellan six hours after launch. This is the first USplanetary mission in over 10 years and the first launched by the Shuttle\" The five man crew consisted of Commander David Walker,Pilot Robert Grabe, Payload Specialist Norman Thagard, Mary Cleave, and Mark Lee. The Magellan spacecraft was being deployed to Venus.