And once again NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery, the oldest remaining orbiter, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center for its next mission, STS-120, to the International Space Station (ISS) to attach the European built Node 2, aka Harmony, to the ISS to enable the station to expand its crew complement to six from three.
Click here to find video of Discovery at launch pad 39B before its STS-116 flight in December 2006
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