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A Young Artist

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A young girl colors in a picture of an astronaut at the Goddard Visitor Center on May 11, 2009. The public and local news reporters came to the visitor center to watch coverage of the shuttle Atlantis launch to begin the final shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA/Debbie McCallum

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