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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The crew members of mission STS-116 are suiting up for launch at 9:35 p.m. EST from Launch Pad 39B aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Pictured here, Mission Specialist Joan Higginbotham is helped with her helmet. Higginbotham will be making her first shuttle flight. This is Discovery's 33rd mission and the first night launch since 2003. The 20th shuttle mission to the International Space Station, STS-116 carries another truss segment, P5.
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Credit lineKSC-06pd2683. NASA/KSC, 2006-12-07. Public domain. ID: KSC-06pd2683.
