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Investigation Images

Space shuttle on launch pad
http://lisar.larc.nasa.gov/LISAR/IMAGES/SMALL/EL-1996-00059.jpg

Earth image
http://lisar.larc.nasa.gov/LISAR/ABSTRACTS/EL-1996-00155.html

Aerial view, Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/NASA_JSC/10076653.jpg

Lift off
http://lisar.larc.nasa.gov/LISAR/IMAGES/SMALL/EL-1996-00476.jpg

Florida from space
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/mrf.stm

 

Literature Connections

A Bird's Eye View by Marcia Freeman
As the Crow Flies by Gail Hartman
Seeing the Earth from Space by Patricia Lauber
My Place in Space by Robin and Sally Hirst
Zoom by Banyai
Looking Down by Steve Jenkins

 

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