NASA Photo ID: STS042(S)064       File Name: 10064479.gif 
 
Film Type: 70mm CN                Date Taken: 01/30/92 
 
Title: STS-42 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 
 
Description: 
 
STS-42 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from a Kennedy Space  
Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad at 9:52:33 am (Eastern Standard Time  
(EST)).  OV-103, atop the external tank (ET) and flanked by two solid 
rocket  boosters (SRBs), is nearly clear of the launch tower as it roars 
above the  mobile launcher platform.  The tower's fixed service structure 
(FSS) and  retracted rotating service structure (RSS) are at the left.  An 
exhaust cloud  produced by the SRBs fills the launch pad area.  The glow of 
the SRB / space  shuttle main engine (SSME) firings are reflected in a 
nearby waterway.