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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an overhead crane lowers the ICS Exposed Facility, or ICS-EF, onto the Japanese Experiment Module's Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section, or ELM-ES, for installation. It is being placed next to two other payloads, the SEDA-AP (Space Environment Data Acquisition Equipment-Attached Payload) and MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image). The ICS-EF is part of space shuttle Endeavour's payload on the STS-127 mission, targeted for launch on May 15. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann