NASA Photo ID: STS056(S)052        File Name: 10072669.jpg
  Film Type: 70mm                    Date Taken: 04/17/93
  Title: STS-56 Discovery, OV-103, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39B into darkness
  Description:
  STS-56 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from Kennedy Space 
  Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B into the early morning darkness at 
  1:29 am (Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)).  OV-103, atop its external tank (ET) 
  and flanked by solid rocket boosters (SRBs), rises above the mobile
  launcher  platform. Exhaust plumes trail from the SRBs.  The glow of the
  SRB / space  shuttle main engine (SSME) firings illuminate the fixed
  service structure  (FSS) tower.  Trees are silhouetted against the launch
  fireworks in the  foreground.               
  Subject terms:
  CAPE KENNEDY LAUNCH COMPLEX             
  DARKNESS                                
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  EXTERNAL TANKS                          
  FLORIDA                                 
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
  LAUNCHING PADS                          
  LIFTOFF (LAUNCHING)                     
  NIGHT                                   
  SPACE SHUTTLE BOOSTERS                  
  STS-56                                  
  TREES
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