Spacelab Arrival Ceremony at Kennedy Space Center
NASA Administrator James E. Beggs speaks at the Spacelab arrival ceremony held at the Operations and Checkout Building, Kennedy Space Center. Sharing the platform are, from left, Vice President George Bush; Eric Quistgaard, director general, European Space Agency (ESA), and Richard G. Smith, director of Kennedy Space Center. Present but not visible in the picture is Dr. Johannes Ortner, chairman, Spacelab Program Board, ESA. Spacelab was a reusable laboratory module that allowed scientists to perform various experiments in microgravity while orbiting Earth. Designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and mounted in NASA's Space Shuttle cargo bay, Spacelab flew on missions from 1983 to 1997.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: GPN-2002-00088
Date: February 5, 1982
Spacelab Arrival Ceremony at Kennedy Space Center
NASA Administrator James E. Beggs speaks at the Spacelab arrival ceremony held at the Operations and Checkout Building, Kennedy Space Center. Sharing the platform are, from left, Vice President George Bush; Eric Quistgaard, director general, European Space Agency (ESA), and Richard G. Smith, director of Kennedy Space Center. Present but not visible in the picture is Dr. Johannes Ortner, chairman, Spacelab Program Board, ESA. Spacelab was a reusable laboratory module that allowed scientists to perform various experiments in microgravity while orbiting Earth. Designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and mounted in NASA's Space Shuttle cargo bay, Spacelab flew on missions from 1983 to 1997.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: GPN-2002-00088
Date: February 5, 1982