NASA Photo ID: STS056(S)098        File Name: 10073232.jpg
  Film Type: 35mm                    Date Taken: 04/17/93
  Title: STS-56 Discovery, OV-103, with drag chute deployed lands on KSC SLF runway 33
  Description:
  STS-56 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, is slowed by the deployed drag 
  chute during its landing sequence on concrete runway 33 at the Kennedy
  Space  Center (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).  The main landing gear
  (MLG) and  nose landing gear (NLG) roll along the runway to wheel stop. 
  Touchdown  occurred at 7:37 am (Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)).  OV-103's
  starboard side  is captured in this view with the deployed
  rudder/speedbrake and the  unfurled drag chute also visible.  Use of the
  drag chute was part of  Development Test Objective (DTO) 521, Orbiter drag
  chute system.              
  Subject terms:
  DISCOVERY (ORBITER)                     
  DRAG CHUTES                             
  FLORIDA                                 
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
  LANDING GEAR                            
  RUNWAYS                                 
  SPACECRAFT LANDING                      
  STS-56
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