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The crane lifting orbiter Discovery casts an arc shadow across the underside of the nose as a silhouetted worker at right watches. The orbiter, in high bay 1 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center, is being lifted away from the External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters. After demating from its External Tank (ET), the orbiter will be placed on a transporter in the transfer aisle and moved to high bay 3 for remating with another tank, ET-121. Discovery is expected to be rolled back to the launch pad in mid-June for Return to Flight mission STS-114. The launch window extends from July 13 to July 31.