Image: 566175main columbia-opf

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Description: The Space Shuttle Columbia arrives in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) at Kennedy Space Center on 25 March 1979. Note the numerous missing Thermal Protection System (TPS) tiles throughout the shuttle. Several thousand tiles had not been installed yet.
Title: 566175main columbia-opf
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/566175main_columbia-opf.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/opf_home.html
Author: NASA
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