STS-52 Space Shuttle Columbia

View looking north showing the Strait of Hormuz, connecting the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf, with the Zagros Mountains and Qeshm Island of Iran in the background, and areas of Oman, Muscat and the United Arab Emirates in the foreground, as seen from the Space Shuttle Columbia during shuttle mission STS-52, 22nd October to 1st November 1992. The primary mission objectives of STS-52 are the deployment of the Laser Geodynamics Satellite II (LAGEOS-II), a joint effort between NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and the operation of the United States Microgravity Payload-1 (USMP-1). (Photo by Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)