LDEF Return to KSC
Suspended above the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) is monitored by technicians during its move from the Space Shuttle to a transportation canister. LDEF, with 57 experiments was launched on STS-41C on April 6, 1984. It spent almost six years in space before being retrieved by the STS-32 crew in January 1990.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 90PC-0098
Date: January 30, 1990
LDEF Return to KSC
Suspended above the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) is monitored by technicians during its move from the Space Shuttle to a transportation canister. LDEF, with 57 experiments was launched on STS-41C on April 6, 1984. It spent almost six years in space before being retrieved by the STS-32 crew in January 1990.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 90PC-0098
Date: January 30, 1990