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Nicholas Jackson - Nicholas Jackson is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Health channel. A former media aggregator for Slate, he has also worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Texas Monthly and other publications.

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Picture of the Day: Sunrise at Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A

By Nicholas Jackson

Feb 10 2011, 10:42 AM ET Comment

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Preparing for its next launch, Space Shuttle Discovery arrived at Launch Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center on February 1. This photograph shows the sun beginning to rise in the east as Discovery awaits its command for liftoff on February 24. The shuttle is scheduled to visit the International Space Station on the STS-133 mission.

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