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 | The US Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from launch pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with seven international crew members aboard on a mission to the International Space Station. The seven astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery began a challenging twelve-day mission involving some of the most complicated construction work ever performed on the International Space Station. click to open  |  | The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 9, 2006. click to open |  | The space shuttle Discovery takes off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 4, 2006. click to open |  | The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on mission STS-121 Tuesday, July 4, 2006. It was the third attempt at a launch since Saturday. click to open |  | The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on mission STS-121 Tuesday, July 4, 2006. It was the third attempt at a launch since Saturday. click to open |  | Space shuttle Discovery lifts-off with a seven member crew from Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Tuesday, July 4, 2006. The mission will include docking with the International Space Center and dropping off European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter of Germany. click to open |  | The space shuttle Discovery sits on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Storm clouds forming near the Discovery shuttle's launch pad forced NASA to delay its crucial mission to the International Space Station until Sunday. click to open |  | A NASA security helicopter checks the route that the astrovan carrying the crew of STS-121 follows as it returns from the Space Shuttle Discovery, rear, at Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, July 1, 2006. NASA officials scrubbed the launch Saturday because of weather. click to open |  | German Astronaut Thomas Reiter exits the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fl. Saturday, July 1, 2006, after the launch was scrubbed due to weather. click to open |  | The crew of the space shuttle Discovery walk out to the bus that will take them to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 1st 2006. The 115th shuttle flight crew is commander Steven Lindsey(R-front), co-pilot Mark Kelly(L-front), and mission specialists Michael Fossum(R-behind Lindsey), Lisa Nowak(L-behind Kelly), Stephanie Wilson (L-third from Bottom), Piers Sellers and the European Space Agency's Thomas Reiter of Germany (rear). click to open |
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