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Space Shuttle Discovery - 01/2009

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-sts11-91050

Date

2010-03-27

Space shuttle Discovery, atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler-transporter, approaches the ramp to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in january 2009. During Discovery's 14-day mission, the crew will install the S6 truss segment and its solar arrays to the starboard side of the station, completing the station's backbone, or truss, enabling a six-person crew to live there starting in May.