Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery from SLC-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 16, 1986. This mission, STS-62A, was to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit.
Front row: Guy S. Gardner, Richard M. Mullane, Jerry L. Ross, and Dale A. Gardner
Back row: Edward C. Aldridge Jr., Robert L. Crippen, and Brett Watterson




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