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Philip Scott Andrews
Two astronauts walk across the gantry and away from the space shuttle Discovery during a routine practice evacuation in March 2010 for the STS-131 mission. Seven astronauts would ultimately lift off aboard Discovery from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida the following month.
The picture is part of an independent series being created by photojournalist Philip Scott Andrews to document the end of the U.S. space shuttle program. In January 2004 U.S. President George W. Bush called for the shuttles to be retired in the wake of the shuttle Columbia disaster, in which seven astronauts perished when the vehicle disintegrated during reentry.
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