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The pilot and commander of the shuttle get the prime seats in the forward section of the flight deck. Here, astronaut Young, commander of the STS-1 mission, looks up from a loose-leaf notebook used to record flight activity.
April 12, 2011 4:20 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA
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