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Examining What Lies Beneath

Examining What Lies Beneath
From left to right: Sigmar Wittig, head of the German Space Agency; William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations; and Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator, Michel Tognini, head of the European Astronaut Center, and Bill Parsons, Kennedy Space Center deputy director, examine the shuttle's thermal protection system tiles.

From left to right: Sigmar Wittig, head of the German Space Agency; William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations; and Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator, Michel Tognini, head of the European Astronaut Center, and Bill Parsons, Kennedy Space Center deputy director, examine the thermal protection system tiles beneath Space Shuttle Discovery following the landing of the STS-116 mission. During the mission, the crew performed four spacewalks attached the P5 integrated truss structure to the International Space Station and rewired of the station’s power system.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett