Primal Florida scrub meets industrial space age in the shimmering heat of a warm afternoon as the Space Shuttle Discovery rolls out to the launch pad for mission STS-114 on 6 April 2005 at Kennedy Space Center. This is a major milestone for the return-to-flight (RTF) of the Space Shuttle Program after a hiatus of over two years following the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

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