NASA Photo ID: STS056-153-092      File Name: 10072694.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 04/17/93
  Title: STS-56 view of freeflying SPARTAN-201 backdropped over the Mediterranean Sea
  Description:
  During STS-56, the Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy
  201  (SPARTAN-201), a freeflying payload, was photographed by Discovery's,
  Orbiter  Vehicle (OV) 103's, crewmembers as it drifted above the
  Mediterranean Sea  near the island of Crete.  On the mission's third day,
  the remote manipulator  system (RMS) arm was used to lift SPARTAN-201 from
  its support structure in  OV-103's payload bay and release it in space. 
  SPARTAN-201 was later  recaptured by OV-103's RMS and returned to Earth
  with the astronaut crew.                 
  Subject terms:
  CLOUDS                                  
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM SPACE)         
  ISLANDS                                 
  MEDITERRANEAN SEA                       
  SPARTAN SATELLITES                      
  STS-56
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