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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At the Astrotech payload processing facility at Port Canaveral in Florida, members of the STS-132 crew receive instruction on the design and operation of the docking mechanism for the Mini-Research Module during their crew equipment interface test, or CEIT. At left is the instructor. From center in the blue flight suits are Mission Specialist Piers Sellers, Commander Ken Ham, and Mission Specialist Garrett Reisman. Mission Specialist Michael Good looks on behind them. CEIT provides the crew with hands-on training and observation of shuttle and flight hardware. The six-member crew of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission will deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini-Research Module to the International Space Station. The second in a series of new pressurized components for Russia, the module will be permanently attached to the bottom port of the Zarya module and also will carry U.S. pressurized cargo. STS-132 is the 34th mission to the station and the 132nd space shuttle mission in the program. Launch is targeted for May 14. For information on the STS-132 mission, visit http:__www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_shuttle_shuttlemissions_sts132_index.html. Photo credit: NASA_Troy Cryder