Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) boom extended above the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay during STS-64. The SPIFEX was designed to study the characteristics and behavior of exhaust plumes from Discovery's Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters.
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NASA
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Photographic documentation of the Shuttle Plume Impingement Flight Experiment (SPIFEX) boom extended above the Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay during STS-64. The SPIFEX was designed to study the characteristics and behavior of exhaust plumes from Discovery's Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters.