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Aryabhatta which was launched on April 19th 1974 by Intercosmos Rocket of erstwhile USSR into a 594 km orbit. The 360 kg satellite was aimed at proving various spacecraft technologies. It also carried instruments for X-rays and Gamma-rays astronomy and aeronomy experiments.
Space Shuttle Challenger comes in for landing at Edwards Air Force base, CA on April 9, 1983. Scanned from a slide, hence the poor quality.
Space Shuttle Launch from the Contemporay Resort.
To see a launch go to the Bay lake side and look east.
It's fast...
UPDATE: Thanks to obama, your not going to see anymore Space Shuttle launchs at all.
VOTE his ass out of office in Nov. 2012.
@ Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. My pics, taken Dec. 3, 2015
Dec 3, 2015: that morning, just after the main gates opened to KSC Visitor Center, I RAN to the Atlantis exhibit and was the first one in that day and had the first session all to myself.