Workers at the NASA's Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center install a 50-foot orbital inspection boom in the shuttle Discovery's payload bay. The boom will be used with the orbiter's robotic manipulator arm (bottom right) to inspect Discovery's thermal protection system during NASA's first return to launch flight currently set for May 2005. Credit: NASA/KSC. Click to enlarge.

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