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JSC2006-E-25961 (4 July 2006) --- In the Shuttle (White) Flight Control Room of Houston's Mission Control Center (MCC), flight directors Steve Stich (center frame) and Norm Knight (right) monitor conditions a few hundred miles away in Florida, site of Discovery's scheduled STS-121 launch. Stich is ascent flight director and Knight serves that position for the Orbit 2 team. Astronauts Stephen N. Frick and Dominic A. (Tony) Antonelli, spacecraft communicators, are seated at the CAPCOM console in the background. The third STS-121 launch attempt proved successful around 2:38 p.m. (EDT) on July 4.
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