[FPSPACE] FW: Stunning video returned from shuttle Discovery's booster cameras

[LARRY KLAES]

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>Subject: Stunning video returned from shuttle Discovery's booster cameras
>Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:29:33 -0400
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>BOOSTER CAMERAS GIVE DRAMATIC VIEWS OF DISCOVERY'S LAUNCH
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>JAPANESE LOGISTICS MODULE MOVES ATOP KIBO LAB TODAY
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>The Discovery astronauts are working through a busy day inside the
>international space station, continuing the outfitting of the Japanese
>Kibo laboratory module and preparing to move a smaller storage module to
>its permanent home on Kibo's upward-facing port.
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>Toward the end of today's Kibo outfitting spacewalk, astronaut Michael
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