STS-42 / Unidentified photographer

Orbiter Discovery landing at KSC

February 16, 1992

Vintage photograph with “This Paper Manufactured By Kodak” watermarks on the verso and NASA MSC caption with identifying number "KSC-92PC-374".
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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The orbiter Discovery returns to KSC, gliding into the Shuttle Landing Facility on the back of the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The landing brings full-circle a trip that began January 22, when Discovery lifted off on Mission STS-42 with a crew of seven and the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 on board. The flight lasted eight days. With the orbiter Columbia also ready to return to KSC from the Rockwell plant at Palmdale, California, Discovery was kept on the West Coast a week longer to bring Columbia back first.

From NASA caption.