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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the White Room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, suit technicians help secure the harness over STS-124 Mission Specialist Karen Nyberg's launch and entry suit. The White Room provides access into the shuttle. Discovery is making its 35th flight. The STS-124 mission is the 26th in the assembly of the space station. It is the second of three flights launching components to complete the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. The shuttle crew will install Kibo's large Japanese Pressurized Module and its remote manipulator system, or RMS. The 14-day flight includes three spacewalks. Photo credit: NASA/Tom Farrar, Kevin O'Connell, Scott Haun
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May 31, 2008
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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