Photographers gather around the Japanese Experiment Module in the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) during a tour. Members of the media were invited to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the first element of the International Space Station by touring the SSPF. Reporters had the opportunity to see Space Station hardware that is being processed for deployment once the Space Shuttles return to flight as well as talk with NASA and Boeing mission managers about the various hardware elements currently being processed for flight.
Location SSPF, Kennedy Space Center
Date December 3, 2003