NASA Photo ID: STS047(S)021       File Name: 10064945.gif 
 
Film Type: 70mm CN                Date Taken: 09/20/92 
 
Title: STS-47 Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, lifts off from KSC LC 39 pad 
 
Description: 
 
STS-47 Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 105, lifts off from Kennedy Space  
Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) 39 pad at 10:23:00:0680 am (Eastern 
Daylight  Time (EDT)).  OV-105, atop the external tank (ET) and flanked by 
two solid  rocket boosters (SRBs) rises above the launch pad as it begins 
its second  trip into space.  Exhaust billows from the SRB skirts and 
covers the launch  pad area.  The fixed service structure (FSS) and 
retracted rotating service  structure (RSS) are visible at the left.