NASA Photo ID: STS053(S)056       File Name: 10065389.gif 
 
Film Type: 35mm CN                Date Taken: 12/09/92 
 
Title: STS-53 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39A 
 
Description: 
 
STS-53 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from Kennedy Space  
Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39A at 8:24:00 am (Eastern Standard 
Time  (EST)).  An exhaust cloud frames OV-103, atop the external tank (ET) 
and  flanked by two solid rocket boosters (SRBs), as it rises above the 
mobile  launcher platform.