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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Scott Higginbotham, right, mission manager for ELaNa V, discusses the concepts behind the design and deployment of the CubeSats flying on the ELaNa V mission with media representatives in the NASA Newsroom at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, using models of the Poly-Picosatellite Orbital Deployer, or P-POD, and various CubeSat canisters. NASA selected five small research satellites, or CubeSats, for the ELaNa V mission launching on SpaceX-3. Four P-PODs aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will ferry them to space. The CubeSats were designed by three universities and the agency's Ames Research Center in California. Launch is scheduled at about 4:58 p.m. EDT April 14. The SpaceX-3 mission, carrying almost 2.5 tons of supplies, technology and science experiments, is the third of 12 flights under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract to resupply the orbiting laboratory. For more information about NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, visit http://go.nasa.gov/CubeSat_initiative. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson