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May 13th, 2009

Silver Bullet Provides Good Luck to Kennedy Space Center


NASA silver bullet NASA Shuttle Launch Director Michael Leinbach shows his lucky silver bullet while in firing room #4 of the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Launch Control Center, Monday, May 11, 2009, at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Leinbach carries the inert silver bullet as a good luck charm. Space shuttle Atlantis with its seven-member crew launched at 2:01 p.m. EDT Monday from Kennedy on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls