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NASA'S SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR'S CREW PREPARES FOR LAUNCH AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER

Mission Specialist Barbara Morgan makes her way to Launch Complex 39A to board NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour for mission STS-118 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida on August 8, 2007. The Endeavour's seven person crew, including teacher/astronaut Barbara Morgan, is on an 11 day service mission to the International Space Station This is the first mission for the Shuttle since 2002. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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