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Eileen M. Collins looks over a procedures checklist

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-sts09-33007

Date

2006-05-08

Eileen M. Collins, mission commander, looks over a procedures checklist at the commander's station on the forward flight deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia on Flight Day 1. The most important event of this day was the deployment of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the world's most powerful X-Ray telescope. Jul 1999.