IMAGE 1100_99\189.Lbm,Crew patch for the STS-48 mission. UARS stands for upper atmosphere research satellite. The triangle above represents the relationship between three key atmospheric processes - chemistry, dynamics and energy.
IMAGE 1100_99\190.Lbm,STS-48 mission specialist James Buchli in spacesuit is lowered into the water tank at the Johnson Space Center to train for contingency EVA.
IMAGE 1200_99\201.Lbm,The 7-tonne UARS (upper atmosphere research satellite) in the payload bay of Discovery shortly before the payload-bay doors are closed three days before launch on the STS-48 shuttle mission.
IMAGE 1100_99\191.Lbm,The STS-48 crew leave the operations and checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center, heading for the van that will take them to the launch pad in the early morning of September 18, 1991.
IMAGE 1100_99\192.Lbm,Discovery heads for the heavens in the dawn twilight on September 12, 1991. (STS-48)
IMAGE 1100_99\193.Lbm,The UARS (upper atmosphere research satellite) pictured in Discovery's payload bay before deployment. (STS-48)
IMAGE 1100_99\194.Lbm,Discovery's RMS arm lifts the UARS from the payload bay and places it in orbit. The solar array is gradually unfolding. (STS-48)
IMAGE 1200_99\203.Lbm,Discovery's robot arm lifts the UARS from the payload bay on the STS-48 mission. The UARS's solar panel is starting to unfold.
IMAGE 1100_99\195.Lbm,Mark Brown (left) and James Buchli work with the structural test article, a model of the Freedom space station truss. (STS-48)
IMAGE 1100_99\196.Lbm,The five STS-48 astronauts on Discovery's mid-deck: from the left, Kenneth Reightler, Mark Brown, John Creighton, Charles Gemar and James Buchli.
IMAGE 1100_99\197.Lbm,STS-48 view of the Bolivian Andes in South America. The lake is Lake Poopo. At top, haze caused by seasonal burning masks the Amazon Basin.
IMAGE 1100_99\198.Lbm,Discovery's crew picture the dense black pall of smoke from the burning Kuwaiti oilfields after the Gulf War. (STS-48)
IMAGE 1100_99\199.Lbm,The STS-48 astronauts spot this huge, flat-topped tabular iceberg in the South Atlantic Ocean. Measuring about 30 km by 60 km, it has broken off the vast Antarctic ice sheet.
IMAGE 1200_99\200.Lbm,Discovery touches down at the Edwards Air Force Base in California about half an hour after midnight local time on September 18, 1991. (STS-48)
