Flight Data Files of the first Space Shuttle Atlantis flight (STS-51-J)

via National Archives at Fort Worth on Facebook:

From the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis’s maiden voyage (STS-51-J) on October 3, 1985, are the original “as flown” procedural checklists for the entry procedure and original “as flown” star chart, used to identify and locate astronomical objects such as stars, constellations and galaxies.

Did you see Atlantis’s final launch this morning?

Source: facebook.com

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  1. laurenbanks reblogged this from todaysdocument and added:
    NASA spam today, but I’m totally not sorry. This is really cool.
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