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At Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour is poised atop a mobile launcher platform awaiting launch following retraction of the rotating service structure. Image credit: NASA/Troy Cryder Feb. 6, 2010