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Tribute to ground colleagues
Alan Poindexter, Commander of STS-131 mission (space shuttle Discovery to the ISS), is shown signing a poster at the Kennedy Space Center. It is traditional, after each flight, for the crew to visit the personnel in NASA’s centres and the private companies that helped them to complete their space mission. Here, the astronauts are meeting their ground colleagues.
Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

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