I'm in charge of all the transfer operations, so the LF part of this flight designation is, near and dear to my heart. We have a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module in the payload bay that's going to be carrying thousands of pounds of equipment and food and other items for the Space Station, and so we'll install that on Flight Day 4. And then we'll start the transfer operations and, hopefully by Flight Day 10, we've got everything done. We're actually on this flight bringing more back to Earth than we are taking up to the Space Station... A lot of the equipment on the Space Station is reusable, and it's time to bring it back down to Earth so it can be refurbished and flown again. And we're going to be bringing home quite a bit of equipment for the Russian space program, some of the rendezvous radar equipment that they use for the Progress and Soyuz vehicles.
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