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KSC-99pp1440

NASA / KSC · 1999-12-17 · photograph (digital archive)

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A cloud-streaked sky provides backdrop for Space Shuttle Discovery as it waits for liftoff on mission STS-103 from Launch Pad 39B. The tower at its left is the Fixed Service Structure, topped by the 80-foot-tall fiberglass mast that helps provide protection from lightning strikes. Below it, extending outward, is the external tank gaseous oxygen vent arm system with the vent hood (commonly called the "beanie cap") poised above the external tank.

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Credit lineKSC-99pp1440. NASA/KSC, 1999-12-17. Public domain. ID: KSC-99pp1440.
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