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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The doors of a transportation canister containing the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello are opened inside NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility. Raffaello holds material returned from the International Space Station to KSC aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on Return to Flight mission STS-114. Raffaello will be transferred to an Element Rotation Stand later and emptied of its cargo. Discovery will undergo processing for the next Space Shuttle flight, STS-121, the second Return to Flight mission.