Night Flight Interior The mothers

The mothers

Photographs of this Historic Building designed by McKim Mead and White in 1918

with roadways in the center of each level

Butterflies Plate 5 shown here

304 science exposures from Feb

Night Flight Interior The mothersSpace shuttle Challenger's third flight was the first to have its beginnings in darkness, as NASA's eighth space shuttle launch lit up the Florida sky at 2: 32 a. m. EDT, Aug. 30, 1983. The STS 8 crew consisted of Commander Richard Truly, pilot Daniel Brandenstein, and mission specialists Dale Gardner, Guy Bluford and William Thornton. On Jan. 28, 1986, Challenger and its crew were lost when a booster engine failed, causing the shuttle to break apart