{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          26-Jul-2005

{description}   KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. Viewed from a camera in the midst of
                Florida greenery across the marshy water, Space Shuttle Discovery
                leaps through billows of smoke and steam on Launch Pad 39B on the
                historic Return to Flight mission STS-114. Liftoff occurred at
                10:39 a.m. EDT. This is the 114th Space Shuttle flight and the
                31st for Discovery. The 12-day mission is expected to end with
                touchdown at the Shuttle Landing Facility on Aug. 7. On this
                mission to the International Space Station the crew will perform
                inspections on-orbit for the first time of all of the Reinforced
                Carbon-Carbon (RCC) panels on the leading edge of the wings and
                the Thermal Protection System tiles using the new Canadian-built
                Orbiter Boom Sensor System and the data from 176 impact and
                temperature sensors. Mission Specialists will also practice
                repair techniques on RCC and tile samples during a spacewalk in
                the payload bay. During two additional spacewalks, the crew will
                install the External Stowage Platform-2, equipped with spare part
                assemblies, and a replacement Control Moment Gyroscope contained
                in the Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure.

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