NASA Photo ID: S88-50418           File Name: 10063256.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 10/14/88
  Title: STS-30 Magellan spacecraft manufacturing at Martin Marietta, Colorado
  Description:
  Clean-suited engineers and technicians at the Martin Marietta plant in 
  Denver, Colorado, prepare the Magellan spacecraft for its six-week long
  trip  to the Kenndey Space Center (KSC). The spacecraft, destined for
  unprecedented  studies of Venusian topographic features, will be mated to
  its inertial upper  stage (IUS) while at KSC and later onloaded to
  Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV)  104, and eventually will be deployed by the
  crew of NASA's STS-30 mission in  April 1989.               
  
  Subject terms:
  ASSEMBLING                              
  INSPECTION                              
  MAGELLAN SPACECRAFT (NASA)              
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  STS-30
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