NASA Photo ID: STS056(S)052       File Name: 10072669.gif 
 
Film Type: 70mm CN                Date Taken: 04/17/93 
 
Title: STS-56 Discovery, OV-103, lifts off from KSC LC Pad 39B into darkness 
 
Description: 
 
STS-56 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, lifts off from Kennedy Space  
Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B into the early morning darkness at  
1:29 am (Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)).  OV-103, atop its external tank (ET)  
and flanked by solid rocket boosters (SRBs), rises above the mobile 
launcher  platform. Exhaust plumes trail from the SRBs.  The glow of the 
SRB / space  shuttle main engine (SSME) firings illuminate the fixed 
service structure  (FSS) tower.  Trees are silhouetted against the launch 
fireworks in the  foreground.