KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In bay 3 of NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility, the payload bay doors on Discovery are open. Seen inside is the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello, which holds material being returned to KSC from the International Space Station as part of Return to Flight mission STS-114. The module will be lifted out of the payload bay and transferred to the Space Station Processing Facility to be emptied. Discovery will begin processing for the second Return to Flight mission, STS-121.
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