Bush - POST-FLIGHT - STS-2 - ELLINGTON AFB (EAFB), TX

S81-39548 (12 Nov. 1981) --- NASA's space shuttle Columbia climbs toward space for a return visit after its 10:10 a.m. liftoff from Launch Pad 39A. Aboard the space shuttle, astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly man the flight deck. On its second mission (STS-2), Columbia carries a payload of science and applications experiments and an arm-like robot device named a remote manipulator system (RMS). Photo credit: NASA