NASA Photo ID: STS056(S)001        File Name: 10072628.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 04/17/93
  Title: STS-56 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, crew insignia
  Description:
  STS-56 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, crew insignia (logo), the 
  official insignia of the NASA STS-56 mission, is a pictorial representation 
  of the STS-56 Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2
  (ATLAS-2)  mission as seen from the crew's viewpoint.  The payload bay
  (PLB) is depicted  with the ATLAS-2 pallet, Shuttle Solar Backscatter
  Ultraviolet (SSBUV)  experiment, and Spartan -- the two primary scientific
  payloads on the flight.  With ATLAS-2 serving as part of the "Mission to
  Planet Earth" project, the  crew has depicted the planet prominently in the
  artwork.  Two primary areas  of study are the atmosphere and the sun.  To
  highlight this, Earth's  atmosphere is depicted as a stylized visible
  spectrum and the sunrise is  represented with an enlarged two-colored
  corona.  Surnames of the Commander  and Pilot are inscribed in the Earth
  field, with the surnames of the mission  specialists appearing in the space
  background.  They are Commander Kenneth  Cameron, Pilot Stephen S. Oswald,
  Mission Specialist 1 (MS1) Michael Foale,  MS2 Kenneth D. Cockrell, and MS3
  Ellen Ochoa.  Each crewmember contributed to  the design of the insignia.       
  
  Subject terms:
  GRAPHIC ARTS                            
  INSIGNIAS                               
  STS-56                                  
  

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