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KSC-08pd3291
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers attach boundary layer transition, or BLT, tile to space shuttle Discovery before its launch on the STS-119 mission in February 2009. The specially modified tiles and instrumentation package will monitor the heating effects of early re-entry boundary layer transition at high mach numbers.
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Credit lineKSC-08pd3291. NASA/KSC, 2008-10-20. Public domain. ID: KSC-08pd3291.
