For reasons I still do not understand, we were all bussed back along the Saturn Causeway to the News Center at 9 am, only to return to the pad at 9:30 am. After a wait the huge structure began to swing open in a clockwise direction. Little by little, the gleaming white of the Discovery's back and wings came into view. Eventually the entire STS 131 stack was revealed to our admiring stares.
| Below is a sequence of photos of the Service Stucture rotating to expose the Discovery just 21 hours before launch. |
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Animation of Rotation of the Service Structure.
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