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NASASpace Shuttle -- November 1984 (7/29/2008)

Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, getting his turn in the Manned Maneuvering Unit, prepares to dock with the spinning WESTAR VI satellite during the STS-51A mission. Gardner used a large tool called the Apogee Kick Motor Capture Device to enter the nozzle of a spent WESTAR VI engine and stabilize the communications spacecraft sufficiently to capture it for return to Earth in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Discovery.


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Mediatype: image
Creator: NASA
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/spacesuits/historygallery/shuttle-nov84a.html
Date: 7/29/2008
Year: 2008
Rights: Public Domain
What: STS-51A
What: Earth
What: Space Shuttle Orbiter
What: Discovery
Identifier: 258767main_51A-46-0057_full
Addeddate: 2009-08-20 00:14:02
Publicdate: 2009-08-20 00:20:24
Keywords: Space Shuttle -- November 1984; What -- STS-51A; What -- Earth; What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter; What -- Discovery

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