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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo and an ammonia tank assembly, removed from space shuttle Discovery's payload bay, are secured in the payload canister which will transport them to the Space Station Processing Facility. Discovery landed on Runway 33 at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility at 9:08 a.m. EDT April 20 after 15 days in space, completing the more than 6.2-million-mile STS-131 mission on orbit 238. The seven-member STS-131 crew carried the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, filled with supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that were transferred to the International Space Station's laboratories. Leonardo now will be modified into a permanent multi-purpose module, or PMM, and left aboard the station on space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission, targeted for launch Sept. 16. For information on the STS-131 mission, visit http:__www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_shuttle_shuttlemissions_sts131_index.html. For information on the STS-133 mission, visit http:__www.nasa.gov_mission_pages_shuttle_shuttlemissions_sts133_index.html. Photo credit: NASA_Jack Pfaller