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Remembering UARS

Twenty years ago this month, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery used the spacecraft's robotic arm to launch the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite into orbit around the Earth.


NASA photograph MSFC-9254338. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published September 24, 2011
Data acquired January 1, 1991

Source:
Space Shuttle > 35mm Camera