Shuttle succeeds in entering orbit

Shuttle succeeds in entering orbit

TOKYO, Japan - Akito Shikano (L) and his wife Kimie, parents of Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, show Yamazaki's graduation essay she wrote when she was in sixth grade at a news conference at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 5, 2010. The space shuttle Discovery with Yamazaki on board lifted off on a mission to the International Space Center from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the same day.

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