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Orbiter: Discovery
Mission: STS-119
Payload: S6 power truss
Launch: March 15, 2009
Time: 7:43 p.m. EDT
Site: Pad 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Landing: March 28 @ 3:13 p.m. EDT
Site: Shuttle Landing Facility, KSC
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Meet the astronauts flying aboard shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission.

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CDR: Lee Archambault

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MS 1: Joe Acaba

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Stormy weather races across the Cape

These images were taken at the Kennedy Space Center press site as a line of rainy weather raced across the Cape a little before 1 p.m. on January 7. The conditions temporarily put on hold Discovery's transit from its hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Also notice the new lightning tower that has been erected at launch pad 39B for the Ares 1 rocket program. It is the first of three such giant towers being constructed at the complex.

Photo credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight Now







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