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An exhaust cloud billows around Launch Pad 39A as space shuttle Discovery blasts off yesterday morning. The seven-member crew will deliver supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that will be transferred to the International Space Station's laboratories. Despite the fact the ISS passed over Florida just 15 minutes before lift off, it will take Discovery two days to catch up and rendezvous with the station.

Image Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Tom Farrar.