Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., mission specialist, takes pictures of Earth with a 70mm handheld camera through the overhead windows on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Curbeam, a member of the 1995 class of astronaut candidates, is making his first flight aboard a Space Shuttle.
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Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., mission specialist, takes pictures of Earth with a 70mm handheld camera through the overhead windows on the aft flight deck of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Curbeam, a member of the 1995 class of astronaut candidates, is making his first flight aboard a Space Shuttle.