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2 minutes 10 seconds after liftoff - the solid rocket boosters fall away
and will be recovered and refurbished for re-use.
It will be another 6 and a half minutes before Discovery reaches 17,500 mph and drops
the empty external fuel tank, which tumbles from space and burns up in the atmosphere.
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