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A Thunderous Start
An exhaust cloud billows around Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as space shuttle Discovery lifts off at 6:21 a.m. EDT April 5 to begin the STS-131 mission.
April 5, 2010
Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Tom Farrar