2-701-459 - Heritage Space/Heritage Images

Huge external fuel tank, second Space Shuttle flight, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida, USA, 1981. STS-2 was the second Space Shuttle mission conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the second flight of the orbiter 'Columbia'. The Space Shuttle program, (official name, Space Transportation System or STS), was NASA's fourth human spaceflight program, and provided routine Earth-to-orbit transport for crew and cargo between 1981 and 2011.