Enlargement of the light metal coloured sphere taken from the video camera on board the Space Shuttle Discovery "STS-51a".
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In the approach phase to WESTAR VI, the video camera on board the Space Shuttle Discovery "STS-51a" manages to film a light metal coloured sphere which comes from the left and then disappears to the rigth. On the background we can see the earth.
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