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![Space Shuttle Columbia before her maiden flight, STS-1](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Columbia.sts-1.01.jpg/300px-Columbia.sts-1.01.jpg)
A timed exposure of Space Shuttle Columbia on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for her maiden flight, STS-1. To the left of the Shuttle are the fixed and the rotating service structures.