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Orbiter: Discovery
Mission: STS-131
Payload: Leonardo
Launch: April 5, 2010
Time: 6:21 a.m. EDT
Site: Pad 39A, Kennedy Space Center
Landing: April 20 @ 9:08 a.m. EDT
Site: KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility

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Discovery unveiled on Easter morning

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Workers wheeled the gantry-like Rotating Service Structure away from the shuttle Discovery on Easter morning, less than 24 hours before its scheduled launch on a servicing mission to the International Space Station.

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