File

STS-8 (15014789010).jpg

From Spacefaring

Original file (583 × 640 pixels, file size: 89 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

Summary

Description

Launch- August 30, 1983 Landing- September 5, 1983 Edwards Air Force Base, Cal Astronauts: Richard H. Truly, Daniel C. Brandenstein, Dale A. Gardner, Guion S. Bluford, Jr. and William E. Thornton Space Shuttle: Challenger STS-8 carried the first African-American into space. Tests were conducted on the flight deck area by facing the nose away from the sun for 14 hours to test the area in extreme cold. Experiments were performed to test animal reactions to space by carrying six rats into space.


Image #: Date: August 30, 1983

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archiv...
Date
Source STS-8
Author NASA on The Commons
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 NASA on The Commons @ Flickr Commons

Licensing

This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by NASA on The Commons at https://flickr.com/photos/44494372@N05/15014789010. It was reviewed on 15 September 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

15 September 2016

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

inception

30 August 1983

data size

90,876 byte

height

640 pixel

width

583 pixel

media type

image/jpeg

checksum

0c9969e84e73a3f0775a415707dc7e8acab11102

determination method: SHA-1

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:41, 15 September 2016Thumbnail for version as of 19:41, 15 September 2016583 × 640 (89 KB)wikimediacommons>Vanished Account ByeznhpyxeuztibuoTransferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://spacefaring.info/File:STS-8_(15014789010).jpg"