Space shuttle Discovery blasts away from Launch Pad 39A atop towers of flame as it races toward space on its STS-124 mission to the International Space Station. Behind it is the fixed service structure with the 80-foot lightning mast on top, seen just above the external tank. At far left is the open rotating service structure.
Space shuttle Discovery blasts away from Launch Pad 39A atop towers of flame as it races toward space on its STS-124 mission to the International Space Station.
Behind it is the fixed service structure with the 80-foot lightning mast on top, seen just above the external tank. At far left is the open rotating service structure.Photo credit: NASA/Sandra Joseph, Tony Gray, Robert Murray, Mike Kerley
May 31, 2008