Ready To Soar

A bird flies above the orange external fuel tank and solid rocket booster of the space shuttle Atlantis as it is covered by the Rotating Service Structure at launch pad 39-B, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA rescheduled the Atlantis shuttle launch for Sept. 6, 2006 after Tropical Storm Ernesto and an earlier lighting strike caused delays in this mission.

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