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Flight Day 3 photo gallery
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This collection of photographs captures up-close views of the space shuttle as Discovery performs its 360-degree backflip maneuver 600 feet directly below the International Space Station. The astronauts aboard the station took these shots among hundreds of pictures to survey the shuttle's heat shield.

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Photos by NASA