NASA Photo ID: STS030(S)108        File Name: 10063287.jpg
  Film Type: 70mm                    Date Taken: 05/08/89
  Title: STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39B
  Description:
  STS-30 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, heads for Earth orbit as it
  rises  above mobile launcher platform at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch
  Complex  (LC) Pad 39B.  This profile view shows OV-104 just before it
  clears LC Pad  39B launch tower.  Exhaust plumes billow from the solid
  rocket boosters  (SRBs).  An exhaust cloud surrounds LC Pad 39B and begins
  to cover mobile  launcher platform.  OV-104 forward and aft attach points
  to the external tank  (ET) are visible.  The retracted rotating service
  structure (RSS) is visible  at left.  Launch occurred at 2:46:58 pm
  (Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)).              
  Subject terms:
  ATLANTIS (ORBITER)                      
  CAPE KENNEDY LAUNCH COMPLEX             
  EXHAUST CLOUDS                          
  EXTERNAL TANKS                          
  LAUNCHING PADS                          
  LIFTOFF (LAUNCHING)                     
  SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS                  
  STS-30                                  
  TOWERS
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