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Nov

2010

8:01pm, EDT

NASA via AP

This image shows a night image of the Florida peninsula taken on Oct. 31, 2010 by one of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station. Both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are visible in the scene, which includes the Florida "Panhandle" and part of the Georgia coast.

Flying over Florida

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Discovery is slated to fly an 11-day mission to the International Space Station to deliver a new storage module and a humanoid robot for the orbiting lab's crew. It will be the 39th and last flight for s pace shuttle Discovery, which is the first of NASA's three shuttles to be retired as the agency winds down its orbiter program next year.