Crewmember activity in the ISS MPLM

STS102-320-025 (8-21 March 2001) --- Astronaut Paul W. Richards, STS-102 mission specialist, is photographed inside Leonardo, the Italian Space Agency-built Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM). Leonardo is the first of three such pressurized modules that will serve as the International Space Station’s (ISS) “moving vans”, carrying laboratory racks filled with equipment, experiments and supplies to and from the station aboard the space shuttle. In the background are astronauts William M. (Bill) Shepherd, Expedition One commander, and Susan J. Helms, Expedition Two flight engineer.