IMAGE 1100_99\132.Lbm,Crew patch for the STS-39 mission. It features the American national symbol, the eagle, in the form of the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. The spectrum represents the radiation various scientific instruments will be monitoring during the mission.
IMAGE 1100_99\133.Lbm,Crew portrait for the STS-39 mission, showing the astronauts in their partial pressure flight suits. They are, from the left: Lacy Veach, Donald McMonagle, Gregory Narbaugh, Michael Coats, Blaine Hammond, Richard Hieb and Guion Bluford.
IMAGE 1100_99\134.Lbm,Discovery arrives at launch pad 39A in mid-February 1991 to be prepared for the STS-39 Department of Defence mission.
IMAGE 1100_99\135.Lbm,Viewed from Discovery's flight deck is the payload, which includes an Air Force instrument package. (STS-39)
IMAGE 1100_99\136.Lbm,On Discovery's aft flight deck Lacy Veach monitors data being collected by the instrument payload. (STS-39)
IMAGE 1100_99\137.Lbm,Gas is released into space from a compressed gas canister in Discovery's payload bay. (STS-39)
IMAGE 1100_99\138.Lbm,Discovery fires reaction control system thruster jets in the tail to trim its attitude in orbit. (STS-39)
IMAGE 1100_99\139.Lbm,Discovery's RMS arm releases the shuttle pallet satellite, SPAS- II, to collect data in fee flight. (STS-39)
IMAGE 1100_99\140.Lbm,The RMS arm reaches out to capture the SPAS-II data-collection satellite after a period of free flight. (STS-39)
IMAGE 1100_99\141.Lbm,The STS-39 crew pose for an in-flight portrait. They are, from the left, at front: Donald McMonagle, Michael Coats, Lacy Veach and Gregory Harbaugh; at rear, Guion Bluford, Blaine Hammond and Richard Hieb.
IMAGE 1100_99\142.Lbm,The STS-39 astronauts snapped this picture of their home town Houston. NASA's Johnson Space Center is located in the lower right-hand quadrant.
IMAGE 1100_99\143.Lbm,Mexico's most active volcano, spied by the STS-39 crew. The volcano had been erupting for nearly two months when the picture was taken.
IMAGE 1100_99\144.Lbm,The STS-39 astronauts took this picture of the estuary of the St Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada.
IMAGE 1100_99\145.Lbm,This stunning shot of layers in the atmosphere above a blazing sunset on the limb of the Earth is one of many outstanding photographs taken by the STS-39 crew.
IMAGE 1100_99\146.Lbm,Discovery's crew turn their cameras on the south polar regions of the Earth to record a fascinating display of the aurora australis, or Southern Lights. (STS-39)
IMAGE 1100_99\147.Lbm,A spectacular display of the aurora australis, or Southern Lights, witnessed by the STS-39 crew.
IMAGE 1100_99\148.Lbm,Discovery touches down at the Kennedy Space Center at the completion of the STS-39 mission on May 6, 1991.
