Beginning its 38th mission to space, the shuttle Discovery took off for the International Space Station at 6:21 a.m. EDT Monday as the first hues of dawn arrived at the Kennedy Space Center. Discovery's seven astronauts will deliver supplies and experiments to the orbiting lab during a 13-day mission.

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