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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Members of the STS-127 crew are greeted by STS-127 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko, at right, as they disembark from a Shuttle Training Aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From right to left are Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley, and Mission Specialists Christopher Cassidy, Julie Payette of the Canadian Space Agency, Tom Marshburn and Dave Wolf. Polansky will be making his third shuttle flight. Hurley, Cassidy, and Marshburn will be making their first shuttle flights; Wolf, his fourth, and Payette, her second. The crew arrived aboard the aircraft from Houston to prepare for launch on space shuttle Endeavour on June 13. The STS-127 mission is the final of three flights dedicated to the assembly of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory complex on the International Space Station. Endeavour will deliver the Japanese Experiment Module's Exposed Facility, or JEM-EF, and the Experiment Logistics Module-Exposed Section, or ELM-ES, to the space station on STS-127. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett