Jamming terrestrial traffic, the orbiter “Columbia” creeps through Lancaster, California, after assembly in Palmdale. Photo: Kerby Smith. In: National Geographic, Vol. 159, No. 3, March 1981.

Jamming terrestrial traffic, the orbiter “Columbia” creeps through Lancaster, California, after assembly in Palmdale. Photo: Kerby Smith. In: National Geographic, Vol. 159, No. 3, March 1981.

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