The number one comment I get on this photo is why is there a toy airplane in the photo. The T-38 jets that landed with the Shuttle gave perspective on how large the Space Shuttle actually is. This was Columbia's first flight. In February 2003, it's last flight, Columbia disintegrated during re-entry.
The joy of one-touch zoom lenses. Photojournalism as art. Luckily Road & Track magazine would publish photos like this (not this one as Mass didn't finish well) in what I call the Golden Age of F1 photography at the end of an era where you could get close to the car while they were racing. Two-touch zooms cannot do what a one-touch zoom can do.
