“Launching to Observe Our Sun” was uploaded to Flickr

On June 21, 1975, NASA successfully launched the eighth Orbiting Solar Observatory aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This satellite was the final in a series of spacecraft specifically designed to look at the Sun in high-energy wavelength bands. via NASA ift.tt/2tseeyr
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Launching to Observe Our Sun was taken on June 20, 1975 at 08:00PM