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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center, Shuttle Program manager Wayne Hale (far left), NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations Mission Bill Gerstenmaier (third from left) and Center Director Jim Kennedy (far right) watch the historic ride of Space Shuttle Discovery as it rockets through the sky on mission STS-121 -- the first ever Independence Day launch of a space shuttle. Liftoff was on-time at 2:38 p.m. EDT.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-06pd1418. NASA/KSC, 2006-07-04. Public domain. ID: KSC-06pd1418.
