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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – -- In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Firing Room 4, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has had his tie cut, a ritual for first-timers at a launch. At left is Rita Willcoxon, director of Launch Vehicle Processing at Kennedy; at right is Jody Singer, deputy manager of the Shuttle Propulsion Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Bolden is at Kennedy for the launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission.