NASA Photo ID: S82-28716          File Name: 10060648.gif 
 
Film Type: 70mm cn                Date Taken: 03/22/82 
 
Title: Air-to-air views of STS-3 launch from T-38 chase aircraft 
 
Description: 
 
The Space shuttle Columbia appearing as a small flaming triangle with a 
trail  of puffy white behind it was taken from a T-38 chase plane over the 
Kennedy   Space Center. The other aircraft in the photo is a second T-38 
chase plane  (28715-6); This image, looking down on the Florida Atlantic 
Coast and some of  the March 22 cloud cover, features the speeding Columbia 
during its launch  (28717).