STS121-E-05008
August 19, 2011
This picture of the STS-121 external tank was taken with a digital still camera by an astronaut only seconds after separation from the Space Shuttle Discovery on launch day. Engineers, managers and flight controllers have carefully studied this image and other frames from this series as well as a number of pictures showing the falling ET as photographed from umbilical well cameras.
Topics:
Edwards Air Force Base, Human spaceflight, Spaceflight, Astronaut, Technology Internet, STS-114, STS-1, STS-127, flight controller, STS-121, Space Shuttle, Manned spacecraft
