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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- David Sutherland (left), manager, Pad A Operations (with United Space Alliance), accompanies STS-114 crew members on a tour of the pad. In the center is Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi, who represents the Japanese Aerospace and Exploration Agency; at right is Mission Commander Eileen Collins. Beyond the pad is the aqua blue Atlantic Ocean, glimpsed between the railing on an upper level of the Fixed Service Structure on Launch Pad 39A. The STS-114 mission is Logistics Flight 1, which is scheduled to deliver supplies and equipment plus the external stowage platform to the International Space Station.