Hi all, I could go through tens of hours of NASA TV videotape recording from past shuttle missions I have at home, but this picture looks familiar to me. You can see such images when the A or D cameras in the payload bay (the ones just aft of the cockpit bulkhead) go to their travel limit near the cockpit. To me, the black thing protruding from the cockpit wall is a latch used for payload bay doors. The curvature of the Earth is due to the camera being at maximum zoom out. NOTHING in this image looks like part of a wing. The payload bay cameras are blocked by the bay doors from seeing the wings. If I have time tonight I will look for a similar image on my videotape. Hope it will be of better quality. Only a Canadarm would have been useful for getting pictures of the wing, but there was none installed on that mission. Image quality is great with the arm cameras. They already used the arm for checking the vent port when making a water dump. This port is on the left side of the shuttle and the arm was able to position itself in a very favorable angle. Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-5:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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