The speckled nose of shuttle
Credit: NASA
The speckled nose of shuttle Atlantis's external tank shows some of the nearly 2,500 hail-damaged areas repaired in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, as the STS-117 stack moves out of the building and back to Pad 39A on May 15. Kennedy and United Space Alliance personnel at...
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