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July 13, 2005 6:31 AM PDT

Workers spend the night preparing the Space Shuttle Discovery for its mid-July 2005 launch. Here, the Rotating Service structure, which installs payloads into an orbiter's cargo bay, is rolled away. This was delayed four hours after a Discovery window cover fell approximately 60 feet, damaging several tiles on the orbiter.

Photo by NASA/KSC

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