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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, astronauts with the STS-127 mission look at equipment that will be used on the mission to the International Space Station. From left are Commander Mark Polansky, Mission Specialist Julie Payette, Pilot Doug Hurley, Mission Specialists Chris Cassidy and Tim Kopra. Kopra will join the Expedition 19 crew on the station. The crew members are at Kennedy for a crew equipment interface test, which provides hands-on training and observation of shuttle and flight hardware. Endeavour will deliver the Japanese Experiment Module's Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section, or ELM-ES, to the space station on STS-127. Launch is targeted for mid-June, 2009. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett