NASA Photo ID: STS056-28-002       File Name: 10073216.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 04/17/93
  Title: STS-56 remote manipulator system (RMS) recaptures SPARTAN-201 above OV-103
  Description:
  STS-56 remote manipulator system's (RMS') end effector grapples the Shuttle 
  Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN-201) against
  the  blackness of space and above the payload bay (PLB) of Discovery,
  Orbiter  Vehicle (OV) 103.  SPARTAN-201, a free-flying payload, is designed
  to study  the solar wind and part of the sun's corona.  The project was
  conceived in  the late 1970s to take advantage of the opportunity offered
  by the Space  Shuttle to provide more observation time for the increasingly
  more  sophisticated experiments than the five to ten minutes provided by
  sounding  rocket flights.  The RMS lifted SPARTAN-201 from its support
  structure and  released it into space on the mission's third day.  Depicted
  here, the  recapture occurred on the mission's sixth day.           
  
  Subject terms:
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  END EFFECTORS                           
  PAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT & RETRIEVAL SYSTEM   
  REMOTE MANIPULATOR SYSTEM               
  SPARTAN SATELLITES                      
  STS-56                                  
  

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