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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Suspended by a 175-ton bridge crane, the orbiter Discovery is lowered next to the new External Tank, ET-121, and Solid Rocket Boosters in high bay 3 for mating. That tank was originally scheduled to fly with Atlantis on the second Return to Flight mission, STS-121. A new heater was added to the tank's feedline bellows, part of the pipeline that carries the liquid oxygen to the orbiter’s main engines, to minimize the potential for ice and frost buildup.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-1250. NASA/KSC, 2005-06-07. Public domain. ID: 05pd1250.
